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At these prices, I'm gonna convert my house into a nightclub..... -- (link) - CrankYanker Dec 22, 15:45 2
- So $300 gets you a 2nd bottle of champagne? Are the celebrity tables reserved for celebrities? -- nm - NutMeg Dec 22, 15:53
- lileve can do your graphic design. -- nm - Mop Dec 22, 15:51
FYI: first 3 Die Hards are $15 at Walmart... -- nm - Beaker Dec 22, 15:45 7
- where is this? i searched and didn't see anything lower than 25 -- nm - Gwaahjo Dec 22, 15:51 2
  - Walmart in Canada. -- nm - Beaker Dec 22, 15:51 1
    - the tag may say higher but flyer has it for sub $5 a pop -- nm - Beaker Dec 22, 15:51
- The first Blu-ray I got (I now have 3) was the first Die Hard for like $8 on Amazon. -- nm - Mop Dec 22, 15:49
- I will sell anyone all three of mine for 20 bucks plus shipping. Looking to buy the Blu Ray version. -- nm - Redmond home from work, bad weather Dec 22, 15:46 2
  - psst Walmart has all three for $15 -- nm - Beaker - Caveman Finalist Dec 22, 15:49 1
    - Ah, read that as each. NM -- nm - Redmond home from work, bad weather Dec 22, 15:55
Ahh, nothing like guessing right in an escalating fog of war game to start a card run. -- nm - Danonezer Scrooge Dec 22, 15:40 3
- what map? -- nm - Beaker Dec 22, 15:43 2
  - Cairns Coral Coast -- nm - Danonezer Scrooge Dec 22, 15:44 1
    - ohhh, tough one in fog, congagrats -- nm - Beaker Dec 22, 15:45
Anyone have plans for Festivus tomorrow? -- nm - CovingtonCat Dec 22, 15:40 6
- I put the pole up today. I have been working all Summer/Fall to beat everyone at the feats of strength -- nm - Redmond home from work, bad weather Dec 22, 15:43
- one of the best bits from Seinfeld -- nm - Beaker Dec 22, 15:42
- can I air my grievances? -- nm - JaxSean Dec 22, 15:41 2
  - How would tomorrow be any different than any other day, then? -- nm - Mop Dec 22, 15:49 1
    - true. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 22, 15:52
- Driving -- nm - Danonezer Scrooge Dec 22, 15:40
and that side project was called Strippers Union Local 518 - Reagen Dec 22, 15:39 1
- That's right! Some fun tunes when I heard it. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 22, 15:42
Ah, here's where all the TT action is - bonnjer Dec 22, 15:39 5
- hello! -- nm - b! merry and bright. Dec 22, 15:42
- Who told you where we were? Crap, now we have to move again. DAMN! welcome :P -- nm - Redmond home from work, bad weather Dec 22, 15:40 3
  - blame Qale -- nm - bonnjer Dec 22, 15:41 2
    - At my popularity level here, even blame is good PR for me. -- nm - Qale Dec 22, 15:55
    - Naw, I just want to blame Pixie, because it's always his fault. ALWAYS! -- nm - Redmond home from work, bad weather Dec 22, 15:42
TV PSA: Prison Break is NEW tonight! -- nm - Beaker - Caveman Finalist Dec 22, 15:37
Did anyone else succumb at the end of the last Woot Off and get the Woot lights? - CovingtonCat Dec 22, 15:36
So... not looking to open a can of worms here, but since we're on the subject of the morning-after pill... - Mop Dec 22, 15:35 15
- Yeah, that's sorta how I see it. - Name Withheld By Request Dec 22, 15:45 7
  - I"m still confused on how the ease of getting contraceptives influences your opinion regarding abortion... -- nm - znufrii Dec 22, 15:55
  - You forgot 4, "Prevents wanting to make sexytime altogether" -- nm - Beryllium Dec 22, 15:46 5
    - Well, considering we've bought it twice in about a month and a half's time (STupid Trojans), I would say 4) doesn't exist. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 22, 15:48 4
      - The plural of anecdote is not data. ;-) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 22, 15:50
      - I really don't want to post this, but... OMG, what are you doing to those condoms?! -- nm - Mop Dec 22, 15:50 2
        
        A legit answer...Nothing special. - Name Withheld By Request Dec 22, 15:54
        
        He IS in winnipeg, where it hits -30 ... maybe the latex doesn't respond well? -- nm - Beryllium Dec 22, 15:51
- Unclear. Wiki says "Some scientists believe that Emergency Contraception may possibly act after fertilization" -- nm - Dr.Vermin Dec 22, 15:44
- according to catholic teaching lifw begiuns at conception. - loosilu Dec 22, 15:41 2
  - The question, then, is when is conception? - Mop Dec 22, 15:47 1
    - Without knowing whether or not your asking of this question relates to your personal life, I would say that, as someone who is pro-life such as I am, - Loyola Dec 22, 15:54
- I wouldn't suspect so more on the basis of religious ideals and the belief that life begins at inception which happens before the implatation. -- nm - Qale Dec 22, 15:39
- I thought most birth control was frowned upon... -- nm - Beaker - Caveman Finalist Dec 22, 15:38 1
  - There's probably a lot less consistency regarding that within the pro-life movement... - znufrii Dec 22, 15:53
What in the blazing hell is the harm of wearing a bike helemt? -- nm - Reagen Dec 22, 15:33 7
- Apparently it's a gateway safety device nm - ralph wiggum Dec 22, 15:45
- 2nd return in a week of a st/tt subjectthat i am completely baffled by. - b! merry and bright. Dec 22, 15:40 4
  - I thought it was enlightening in that discussion that Ben had said that if it was so unsafe to ride without a helmet, PA should have passed a law -- nm - Reagen Dec 22, 15:44
  - ben Roethlisburger. But this is about bicycles, not motorbikes. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 22, 15:42 1
    - thanks, and i know. - b! merry and bright. Dec 22, 15:45
  - er, this is the second subject this week. and add a space there, please. (must have more tea.) -- nm - b! merry and bright. Dec 22, 15:42
- due...my hair -- nm - Beaker - Caveman Finalist Dec 22, 15:39
"Sarah Palin is...Going Rogue!" -- (link) - David Dec 22, 15:33 1
- "You'll be back" -- nm - Jed Bartlett Dec 22, 15:34
Did ESPN just compare Michael Jordan to Hitler? - the wrong element, bad guy Dec 22, 15:32 1
- In a good way. -- nm - Mop Dec 22, 15:39
They're taking down the heritage eucalyptus outside our complex......so bummed right now :( -- (link) - NutMeg Dec 22, 15:29 [flickr]
Free download of Vedera (from Kansas City, opening for The Fray) here: -- (link) - JaxSean Dec 22, 15:27 1
- Here's their main MySpace page: -- (link) - JaxSean Dec 22, 15:28
time to go home. sweet. -- nm - tRuMaN Dec 22, 15:25
Ah, 7-Eleven run. I'd better wear a helmet, it's slippery out there. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 22, 15:24 1
- You're posting without a helmet?!?! Daredevil! -- nm - Dr.Vermin Dec 22, 15:25
The new MLB channel keeps playing the 2004 World Series film. I get goosebumps every time Roberts steals that base. -- nm - CQ draped in tinsel Dec 22, 15:22
Surely all images of Santa Claus should depict the great man wearing a helmet in the interests of promoting safety. After all, a fall from that height - Loyola Dec 22, 15:21 2
- MY version is the definative Santa -- nm - Thomas Nast Dec 22, 15:23
- what do you think the pom-pom is on the red hat? A magical elf airbag. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 22, 15:22
BBC headline submitted without comment. -- (link) - Name Withheld By Request Dec 22, 15:13
This is funny. Reminds me of the Mayor in Jaws. News interviewing store owners in the mall. - Redmond home from work, bad weather Dec 22, 15:06 4
- I know from experience that often when the "officials" say "roads are dangerous don't travel blah blah blah" they really aren't that bad if you take - Cuzzin Toddnog Dec 22, 15:08 1
  - I agree.....I think they say it more so they can keep the bad drivers off the road so they can plow and salt the roads properly -- nm - Walt_Disney Dec 22, 15:12
- Bah. There are no unsafe streets, only unsafe drivers. - Dr.Vermin Dec 22, 15:08 1
  - And there are a fuckload of those. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 22, 15:09
freaking sony just sent me a welcome to sony products email. - tRuMaN Dec 22, 15:06 2
- HA! Well deserved I'd say. -- nm - Remlik Dec 22, 15:34
- I'm finding your travails with Sony comical. -- nm - Mop Dec 22, 15:30
Cuzzin Todd nailed Despereaux more than I nailed Yes Man. Kilbo, how are you measuring this week's openers? - JaxSean Dec 22, 15:01 9
- Who nailed Will Smith? -- nm - con_carne Dec 22, 15:35 1
  - Me! -- nm - Jada Dec 22, 15:38
- I just wish I hadn't been swayed by "names" for the other two. - Cuzzin Toddnog Dec 22, 15:07 1
  - i just wished i remembered to flip Yes Man like i thought i had done weeks ago -- nm - pigby Dec 22, 15:09
- The Box Office Game doesn't work like that. We only guess opening weekend numbers and the update said we're only doing Fri-Sun this Christmas. -- nm - Qale Dec 22, 15:04 4
  - There's updates? I don't seem to get those. - JaxSean Dec 22, 15:08 3
    - I don't think we've had one yet. The updates appear if you are signed in and go to the Facebook home page. It'll be under any possible "requests" - Qale Dec 22, 15:14 2
      - Yeah, I know where they are, I just meant I don't think I've ever received one about the Fri - Sun thing. -- nm - JaxSean Dec 22, 15:22 1
        
        Oh, well I got it today. -- nm - Qale Dec 22, 15:40
From BB's....I have scars on my legs, arms and my chest from when I ran into a barbedwire fence collapsed on the ground while bike riding as a kid. - Walt_Disney Dec 22, 15:01 43
- I split my head open from a bike fall when I was a kid. Hospitalised for a few days. Don't think helmets were invented back in 1986. - Loyola Dec 22, 15:09
- I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that wearing a helmet removes all chance of scrapes or anything. - Will Hunting Dec 22, 15:03
- to repeat what others have said: a serious head injury is not a cut or a scratch, it's permanent. so why not put on a damn helmet? - loosilu Dec 22, 15:02 40
  - But we have so many other things that people including kids get serious injuries and yet we focus on the thing that is only 800 per year.... - Walt_Disney Dec 22, 15:08 35
    - Just a quick quibble....those are injuries from those; not deaths. - Will Hunting Dec 22, 15:13 25
      - And really I could care less. I'm not looking to bubble wrap my kids (they ride horses for god's sake and fall regularly), but I don't want my kid to - pmb Dec 22, 15:43 3
        
        Just curious, do they wear helmets when riding the horses? ( I honestly don't know the answer for kids riding.) -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 22, 15:47 2
        
        I should say that it is mandatory for adults as well. You will almost never see a rider on a horse without a helmet. - pmb Dec 22, 15:54
        
        Absolutely. It's mandatory in the show ring and it has to be a certified helmet as well. -- nm - pmb Dec 22, 15:49
      - the stat I heard on the BB, be it true or false, was that 95% of those 800 fatalities were incidents where a helmet was not being worn -- nm - Beryllium Dec 22, 15:14 20
        
        And a quibble here (because the other got lost to backboarding), nothing about that number says that helmets would have prevented them. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 22, 15:16 19
        
        You believe 100% of those deaths were non-preventable? - Will Hunting Dec 22, 15:20 10
        
        No. As said below, it just doesn't provide a sound number for comparison is all. As far as your IM... - Name Withheld By Request Dec 22, 15:25 9
        
        it really soumds like - loosilu Dec 22, 15:29 8
        
        Evidence of what Loosi? That a helmet can prevent a head injury? Sure. I've never argued against that. - Name Withheld By Request Dec 22, 15:33 7
        
        you actually did - loosilu Dec 22, 15:37 1
        
        Which post? (Because you shouldn't confuse the criticism of the 95% number as a criticism of helmets themselves.) -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 22, 15:50
        
        You'll need to prove to me that the cost of a bike helmet law is more worth it than a few hundred preventable dead kids. - Will Hunting Dec 22, 15:35 4
        
        Really? So you favour helmets for toboggans? Skating? Skiing? Climbing trees? Tree houses? - Name Withheld By Request Dec 22, 15:42 3
        
        You show me where you're looking at 800 people dying a year (a fair bit of them likely preventable) from those activities, I'll look into it. - Will Hunting Dec 22, 15:54 2
        
        No barb wire scars on me. (That's Walt.) Statistically, I'd bet it's not all that unconsistent with those other activities. - Name Withheld By Request Dec 22, 15:59 1
        
        Here's an interesting fact sheet: (Like, did we know that baseball has the highest fatality rate amongst sports?) -- (link) - Name Withheld By Request Dec 22, 16:01
        
        if the rate of helmet wearing is over 5%, it suggests it very strongly. -- nm - loosilu Dec 22, 15:20
        
        really? - Beryllium Dec 22, 15:18 6
        
        I'm just saying that until you factor in the overall percentage of helmet usage and factor out fatalities that would have been fatalities anyhow... - Name Withheld By Request Dec 22, 15:22 5
        
        common sense test. - loosilu Dec 22, 15:25 3
        
        No, it is likely far higher I would think. That said, my argument is not that helmets don't cut down on injuries. - Name Withheld By Request Dec 22, 15:29 2
        
        theres - loosilu Dec 22, 15:31 1
        
        Who's been arguing that they aren't safer? Let's not confuse putting numbers into perspective (ala Bery's 95%) and denial that they work at all. - Name Withheld By Request Dec 22, 15:37
        
        Statistics on their own don't mean anything. They just suggest things. -- nm - Beryllium Dec 22, 15:23
    - its 800 a year thankls to helmet ,laws. wjhat was it before? -- nm - loosilu Dec 22, 15:11 8
      - Appears to be down from around 1,000 annually, but a couple of authors have hypothesized that drunk driver crackdowns were a big reason too. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 22, 15:15
      - What were car accident deaths before cars, what were posionings before all the crap we keep under the sink? -- nm - Walt_Disney Dec 22, 15:13 5
        
        check out stats for seat belts. -- nm - loosilu Dec 22, 15:16
        
        The more likely analogy would be, what were car accident deaths per capita prior to seat belt laws -- nm - Beryllium Dec 22, 15:15 3
        
        I agree with seat belts....especially when you are doing 100 km on a highway and someone decides to talk on a cell phone and not pay attention. - Walt_Disney Dec 22, 15:21 1
        
        kids ride bikes on those same streets. -- nm - loosilu Dec 22, 15:26
        
        (Populations have trended up, as accidental fatalities have trended down ... so numbers need to be massaged to provide the right perspective) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 22, 15:16
      - I wonder if I should mandate helmets for ST posting? ;-) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 22, 15:12
  - my parents have a friend who was skiing a few years ago, misjudged a turn, and fell, and hit his head on an exposed rock - tRuMaN Dec 22, 15:04 3
    - darwinism at work. -- nm - loosilu Dec 22, 15:08 2
      - sounds like he's still alive, so the human race will become thicker skulled and have a smaller brain capacit5y -- nm - Roger More Dec 22, 15:09 1
        
        la.marckism at work! -- nm - loosilu Dec 22, 15:12
You know what would be good for the economy? 2 Christmases! - Loyola Dec 22, 15:00 1
- Other than Christmas dinner, our family is not exchanging gifts this year. But you know, I'm okay with that. - Qale Dec 22, 15:02
NWBR, question about your TMI post - kelly Dec 22, 14:58 10
- Nope. It's pharmacy descretion about whether they keep it behind the counter or on the shelf (I've yet to see it on the shelf anywhere*)... - Name Withheld By Request Dec 22, 15:04 6
  - PS as a general aside on the subject: - Name Withheld By Request Dec 22, 15:07 2
    - I find the same things as I get older...... - Walt_Disney Dec 22, 15:17 1
      - I think credit goes to Hillary Clinton for popularizing that partiticular turn of phrase - znufrii Dec 22, 15:39
  - That's...quite a difference in price. -- nm - kelly Dec 22, 15:06 2
    - I know. My g/f was shocked. I joked it was because her other pharmacy was at the university where she worked. - Name Withheld By Request Dec 22, 15:08 1
      - Plus, the savings on it "paid" for 25% of my membership for the year. *chuckling* -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Dec 22, 15:10
- I know you didn't ask me. But I just ran into this 2 months ago with an OOOPSI, NO prescription needed. Cost 37 bucks -- nm - Redmond home from work, bad weather Dec 22, 14:59 2
  - At Costco? Heh. -- nm - kelly Dec 22, 15:00 1
    - Nope, Walgreens. Costco is funny -- nm - Redmond home from work, bad weather Dec 22, 15:01
for tru. - loosilu Dec 22, 14:58 6
- oh I freely admit to be sad and moopey. - tRuMaN Dec 22, 15:03 5
  - after the way you play most video games I'd be sad as well.... - Remlik Dec 22, 15:36
  - *hug* - kelly Dec 22, 15:05 3
    - once more, with feeling! - tRuMaN Dec 22, 15:08 2
      - close. - Dr.Vermin, haiku Nazi Dec 22, 15:12 1
        
        geek! -- nm - tRuMaN Dec 22, 15:13
is Dano still looking for Sundance lodging? -- nm - pigby Dec 22, 14:56
Now!!! -- nm - Walt_Disney Dec 22, 14:54 4
- We passed it? When? -- nm - Cuzzin Toddnog Dec 22, 14:55 3
  - Just now. We're at now, now. -- nm - Qale Dec 22, 14:55 2
    - now? -- nm - oblique Dec 22, 14:56 1
      - Well go back to then! -- nm - Qale Dec 22, 14:56

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