Thursday Daily Thread 2/11/16
What is everyone doing to celebrate the birthday of Sarah Palin and Jeb Bush?
Posted Feb 11, 2016, 11:09 AM UTC
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I'm burning a Hillary Clinton action figure in effigy, as is custom.
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Not sure how much action Hilary is getting. Its just a figure.
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All week, work has been raising money for charities by selling valentines day balloons/cards (a la elementary school) to give to your favorite co-workers. They will be delivered today. I sent one to myself. Ha! I am my favorite co-worker.
Otherwise, just choking down my algae smoothie and other usual stuff. Hating being cold.
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they will be delivered today. I sent one to myself. Ha! I am my favorite co-worker.
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None for Gretchen Weiner, Sorry!
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That reminds me that I promised the little kids at my son's daycare that I would buy candygrams from them today, but I forgot to bring cash. Argh.
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You monster.
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I know. I'll have to get some at lunch.
On a completely unrelated note, but relevant to a completely different conversation, Janet Yellen's voice is REALLY annoying.
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What? You don't find her Polish Jewish Brooklyn lilt endearing?
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Need her and Bernie in a room having a conversation - Battle of the Brooklyn Jews. People shvitzing everywhere.
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I was thinking it was too damn cold until someone from Boston posted that it was -7. Suddenly, 20 ain't so bad.
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Suddenly, 20 ain't so bad.
Balmy.
Your Boston blood has thinned living in the South.
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Yes, I'm a weenie.
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twenny iz fahkin' beach weathah, kehd.
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That moment when the weather report says "20 degrees" and you seriously consider calling out of work.
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Getting new tires for my car. And an oil change.
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Flying out to LA today c u l8ter haters
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I felt really proud of myself this morning, biking to the gym at 6am. I could have driven, but I was like"I'm tough! Rawr!"
I'd like to state now that I'm an idiot. And I was a frozen idiot this morning. Butttttt I've got goulash for lunch! So yum
Also someday our team of misfits will overcome the power house of Yarbles and the gang at trivia. I believe. But 2nd is still good.
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That guy is a trivia tyranosaurus.
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I just try and squeeze between incorrigible biscuit and jbcoll04. If you wanna look smart, you need to work on your positioning.
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It's I. Muffin, get it right or pay the price! :P
u/1224 you'll appreciate the fact that I actually did encounter the verb "sniggered" in a novel today. It was written by J.K. Rowling, so I guess she can get away with it?
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I think I want it to be biscuit.
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It's safe in print. The potential for conversational suicide is still there though.
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I'm just imagining a trex trying to grab its beer with the tiny little arms
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Lotus at the National tonight!
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I got really excited thinking you had just shortened Flying Lotus. I guess now it's time to check out somebody new.
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Likewise Justin!
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This work-week has been going on forever. It's like shrooms level time distortion, only way less fun.
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Well that's what you get for using shrooms at work!
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But the bourbon had such an obvious smell.
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Seriously! I can't believe it's only Wednesday
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Don't tell him, anyone.
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It actually took me a while to notice....
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I actually thought it was when I woke up, figured it out pretty quickly.
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For real! This week and last week have dragged like no other week before them. I was convinced today was Friday because surely it's been 12 or 13 days since the last one.
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Having our board game meet up tonight at The Answer!
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Enjoying some quality tunes while I make my way north to our nations capital. Long day of prep work ahead of me. Need to let go of meeting anxiety today and crush it tomorrow.
Happy almost Friday.
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I had dream after dream about work last night. When my alarm finally went off, I immediately woke up in a panic thinking it was a client calling me for results and tried to answer my phone.
I think I need a vacation.
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This is awful. You deserve a 9AM margarita.
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That would pair nicely with the 8AM margarita I just finished.
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I had a 9 AM Virgin Mary, but was very tempted! (I like the Lefty O'Doul's mix as a spicy tomato juice)
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Ugh. I hate work dreams. They never end well. Why can't I ever get a huge raise / promotion in my dreams?
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Florida is nice...
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I'm going to ban you if you keep trying to lure people to your alligator pit.
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What is the temperature there today?
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Sunny and 60F at the moment, supposed to be a high of 66 today. Supposed to be a high of 76 tomorrow, can't wait.
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I wish you were going to LA with us!
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Me too! But I did just apply for my passport this week... I've got a few things up my sleeve for the coming months (if work doesn't destroy me first.)
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Despite the fact that LA seems like a foreign world, I don't believe you need a passport to go there.
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I'm starting to look pretty grungy from letting my hair grow out since my enlistment ended. Would anyone want to trade some automotive work for a hair cut? Something small, maybe an oil change? I'm a professional mechanic, and could come do it in your driveway. Just trying to control these luscious locks of mine on an about to have a baby any day now budget.
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I could buy you a haircut if you'd be able to check out a used car that I'll be buying soon!
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Hey, I like the sound of that! When are you thinking?
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Refilling my addy prescription? Celebration! Damn doctors office opens at 745, but the attached pharmacy at 8:30. So I'm waiting.
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Stupidest drug ever man. You will notice these effects: you believe everything you say is the greatest thing anybody has ever heard, silence is no longer golden to you, your years of finding Zen will go out the window, your penis will be the most wimpy penis, your muscles will go away, you use up more heart beats than you should, beer and marijuana doesn't have any effects anymore. The drug is a perpuatual flight or right response that never ends. No more peacefulness and healthy appetites for you. If you ever quit that stuff, marijuana and alchohal is your friend to help you at least do something to that hell week when you stop. Everyone feels amazing on speed dude, just because you do too doesn't mean anything. Love ya man.
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Some people actually need Adderall to function better. Just because you experience these effects does not mean it's universal. You can step off your soapbox. Ugh, your tone just comes of so condescending.
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I've been prescribed this drug since high school, and none of these things are problems for me. As u/Noparlortricks said too... some people actually need it to function better.
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Then why be excited to refill? Did you run out before it was time? In this world of valueing you as a worker only, I bet speed does make you function better. Everyone would on speed. Don't kid yourself as you clean your house with a manic high and feel like you are on amphetamines like you feel different than anyone else would on amphetamines. I'm sorry man but it's insane hey prescribe people for ADD stimulate s.
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Damn, tone never comes off well in text, and I always forget that. I meant it as like a joking answer to the thread's question. What am I doing for their birthday? I don't know... I guess... sitting here getting my scrip filled? Hooray?
Also, I don't get these manic highs you speak of.
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It's almost like different people react differently to different drugs. Weird, huh?
Don't shit on people for using something that works for them, and don't act high and mighty just because it didn't work for you.
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I'm sorry man but it's insane hey prescribe people for ADD stimulate s.
If you don't understand why maybe you're better off not commenting on it?
Prescription stimulants have a calming and “focusing” effect on individuals with ADHD. Tons of people get diagnosed with ADHD that don't actually have it. Stimulants have a normal effect on them.
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Then why be excited to refill?
If you are off balance (naturally jacked with ADD) and want to calm down to a normal level then you are happy when you are able to do that. /shrug
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As a former speed freak from the early 70's I can assure you that your assessment of this drug is both identical to mine and a certain indicator that you do not need it.
That being said, I have friends with serious need for the drug. It does not jack them up, it calms them down. weirdest shit evah!
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Wow no Guac jokes? Step it up RVA.
Question: Where did the tradition of throwing bags of trash on the road side come from?
Litters need to be caned in the public square Singapore style.
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This is a hot topic of debate in my life, but do you consider throwing a banana peel on the ground littering?
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Yes. :-)
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yes.
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Yes, but if done appropriately you will not be caned.
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Just random, throw it out the car window ground?
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Sure - like sitting at a stoplight and just finished eating the banana and need to dispose of the peel.
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Littering. Throw it in the forest, not littering IMO. Same with apple cores and chicken wings.
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If it's on the road, sidewalk or someone's yard then I would say yes. Driving down the highway and throwing into the woods on the side? I would say no.
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Yes if I'm in the city, no if I'm driving on 64 and there's trees on both sides of the road.
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I agree with this. When trump wins maybe we can bring back cruel and unusual.
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I think we could make caning a thing and have Singapore pay for it.
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Nothing cruel and unusual about learning a lesson. My parents teachers had paddles, I remember getting smacked with a ruler by an old teacher, certainly a good old fashioned 'canin for littering would be fair and just.
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Also if Bernie wins we can bring back proscription to fund healthcare.
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Our senators need not their country villas
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I agree on people who litter.
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I've spent the morning wondering if my fat cat has lost weight and thinking about trying to weigh him on my food scale, since I don't have a people-scale.
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Lmfao. This image is great.
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Going to work. I am excited, I got leftover chicken enchiladas for lunch.
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Now I'm sad I don't have chicken enchiladas for lunch. Want to trade for turkey chili??
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chili. That's what'll be for dinner sometime this week. Thanks!
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Nice!
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That sounds so good!
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Something dumb happened at work and now I'm probably going to miss a whole day of Katsucon. Praying for a miracle.
Edit: I fixed it!! Leaving as planned!!!
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That sucks.
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Hopefully things work in my favor! Fingers crossed.
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NERDDDDDDDD!!!
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Duhhhh.
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I guess I'll reserve my favorite Sarah Palin joke for another day, it's really not appropriate for almost any forum.
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Neither is she.
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I guess I'll reserve my favorite Sarah Palin joke for another day, it's really not appropriate for almost any forum.
Oh come on tig, you can't tease us like that.
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tigs gonna tig, yo.
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I can't, every time that I tell that joke, God kills a kitten.
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The feral cat population is pretty bad. It could help.
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Paging u/gooeyfishus with his relevant hypothetical.
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This is going to be this months thing for me... Thanks.
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I know all the words in this, but not in the order that they're in.
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For $100,000 a year, full benefits health dental vision with $0 copay and no deductible (free healthcare!) Would you do a job in which you had to personally, physically kill 100 kittens a year. You can kill them however you want - neck breaking, golf club swinging etc. No poison or.throwing into a river. Has to be personal.
100k. 100 kittens.
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Would I have to leave my current job?
Cause no way I'm taking a pay cut to kill 100 kittens.
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$100k will cover a really competent therapist even if the free healthcare doesn't. Where's the application?
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I bet the folks at r/palin and r/sarahpalin would love to hear it.
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So would I!!
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I bet u/tiglathpilesar would PM it to you, thereby maintaining forum decorum and keeping kittens from certain death.
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Success!
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i'm back, y'all. no broken bones.
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Any broken dreams?
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Any broken hearts?
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no.
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Any snow tires?
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yes.
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We have reservations at the Roosevelt tonight! I'm fixing to have some good cocktails and tasty food.
This work day needs to be over already. I know I went to school for politics and should be grateful I have a good job in my chosen field, but some days the politics makes me really angry, then sad, then stabby. Mostly stabby. (please don't report me to HR).
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Voting for no one that they resemble.
In other news, I bought a house!
Congrats! Your water heater just broke
I spit my coffee out when I read this.
Hahaha. While there are a few concerns, the water heater and HVAC are new within the last 5 years I believe.
Hopefully you got a home inspection to check the other things.
Of course. It's standard to isn't it?
did you get a home warranty? I can't recommend it enough.
Have you ever successfully used it? I don't own, so this is all hearsay, but what I've always heard was that they weren't worth it because when something actually does break the terms are usually very good at preventing the company from having to pay out.
The fridge that came with the house "broke" and we got a fancy new one since the "break" was not repairable
Do you know which company you have the warranty with?
I called once when my A/C started leaking. Turned out it was just a clogged pipe, and they charged me $150 for coming out. Nothing has broken, but it's definitely giving me peace of mind.
I've heard mixed comments. Some people have had bad luck while others have done much better.
We've had to have both our AC and our heat repaired. Someone was out within 24 hours each time, we paid the $100 fee and everything was fine. Home warranty does not cover freon though, so if your AC is leaking, be prepared to sell a kidney.
They replaced my disposal and serviced my HVAC replacing the capacitor and recharging freon. Both cost me the $50 service fee.
I believe so
Seconded. Totally worth it.
Congratulations. What part of town?
Henrico, across Three Chopt from Freeman high school
Congrats!