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Sandman

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  1. 25 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    In nyc, there’s no reason to have cars. Lose the car payments, insurance, and gas. 

    Then lose the 18k to charity. There’s over 30 thousand right there. 

    Plus the aforementioned vacation budget. 

    I just assumed that was done solely for tax purposes.

  2. 16 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    When is the last time someone actually successfully bombed a school? I mean I would imagine like 99% of all called in threats are just noise or stupid kids being stupid. Doesn't mean you can ignore them - but maybe treat the situation accordingly. Occam's razor and all that. 

    I was in school in Germany when Dad got stationed there in 1980, we had several bomb threats. At first, the administration freaked out, we had a bombing at a disco in Frankfurt around the same time so it was fresh on people's minds. So they would just evacuate the school and we were cut loose. We loved it, we got to go home. After this happened a couple of times, they just marched us down to the local movie theatre and we had to sit there until everything was clear. We didn't have any more bomb threats after that. 

  3. We got our first VCR in 1981, I turned 8 that year. Dad borrowed a couple of tapes from a guy at work. The Elephant Man was the first one we watched. I was fucking scarred for life, had nightmares afterwards. I still can't look at that shit to this day. Mommie Dearest was the second but I was too young to really understand it. 

    But fr, fuck the elephant man. 

  4. 7 hours ago, 52-80 said:

     

    "homemade" foods - for stuff actually made in low-batch, at home.  if youre cooking soup for 500 people in a cafeteria, its not homemade.  if you pump out industrial quantities of cookies to distribute to albertsons, its not "homemade", even if its baked from scratched

     

     

    I hate when douchebag chefs call someone a "Home Cook". No, MF'er, I am a human adult that wants to feed myself. I'm not a "cook". 

  5. 10 hours ago, Nicole44 said:

    Sorry for bothering y’all. Just thought it was cool DNA and dipshits (who care about what specific part of a country they belong to) are solving crimes. It’s like watching John Walsh if DNA swabbing (voluntarily-lmao) was a crime show. 

    Yeah, I hate people who like stuff, too.

  6. I'm having issues with my bed cover. I have an OEM cover on my F150, it's the clamshell type that lifts up at the tailgate. It's just one big fiberglass piece. According to the window sticker, this was installed by the dealer for the original owner. 

    When it's open, it moves normally, doesn't stick or feel too loose, seems fine. But when I close it, it shifts dramatically to the right (passenger side). It hangs over too far to the right and it's so tight on the left side that it has rubbed off the paint. I unhooked it from the 2 piston/arms and lowered it, still shifted to the right and I can't get it to move left. I thought maybe one of the arms was bent but that doesn't appear to be the problem.

    I need to take it off to move some stuff anyway, and taking it off was going to be my first step to see if I can get it back on straight. But in the event that it goes back on with the same problem, I'm not sure what my next step should be. I don't want to go to the dealership because God knows what they'd charge to fix it but I'm not sure I have any other options. I figure most truck accessory shops would rather sell me a new cover instead of try to fix mine. 

  7. My wife is always insisting on using the GPS, I told her you've lived here (OKC metro) your whole life, how do you not know where you're going? Fuck, anytime we go somewhere "new", I have to drive because she's too scared to drive in a new place. And sound the alarm if there's any one way streets involved.

  8. 22 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

    Are you kidding?  If it's a women's sport, they are maxing their scholarships.  Texas basically balances Title IX by giving out something like 40 women's rowing scholarships.  I had a girl in my class one year at UT who was on the rowing team.  She told me she was on a full athletic scholarship, and she had never been on a rowing team in high school.  

    Not to mention that some of the smaller sports don't even get full schollys for each kid. Wrestling, for example, only gets 9.9 scholarships to divide amongst the whole team. Pretty sure baseball is similar.

  9. 1 hour ago, Rimbo said:

    And, just so we're absolutely clear on this, she did suggest the idea and help show my daughter how to play with rice. It's not like my daughter got into the rice on her own.

     

    Bro, we already know this. We've been there.

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  10. 1 hour ago, Cajun said:

    For those with a 2009 and up F150, this is a damned fine hack if you're into storing some shit in your truck...

     

    Dumb question perhaps, but at the 1 minute mark, what it that plastic funnel looking thing under the seat? When I bought my last truck, I found one in the glove box but I had no clue what it was. I left it there when I traded it in.

  11. I thought Black Panther was meh. I didn't notice any SJW stuff, it was just: Hero is there, Hero has a setback, Hero saves everyone. I wanted something more. 

    I never cared for Captain Marvel when I was reading comics, I remember when he died and that's about it. The character does nothing for me, man or woman. Brie Larson has all the personality of a piece of driftwood, so I have zero interest in this one, regardless of her "girl power" talk. It really does seem like Green Lantern redux. 

     

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  12. 15 hours ago, Scooter Monzingo said:

    I am in agreement 100%. When Candy got mad at Garrison (Costner) in the lunch scene. I actually felt like he must have had an unreported off screen incident with Costner that allowed him to generate that level of emotion. I, like most people at the time. Believed John Candy to be a comedic actor who was gifted with excellent timing, but lacked the chops to deliver dramatic lines in that way. And in hindsight I wish he would have lived long enough to have had the opportunity to see just how far he could have gone with it.

    I also agree with you on Robin Williams. He gets a huge nod by most for Patch Adams. But, I remember him more for his role as Dr Cozy Carlisle in Dead Again. Maybe his demons helped him find the depth of the character that he was portraying. But the guy was simply amazing doing drama.

    I agree on JFK. He can go from a smarmy sleazeball ("Cashew pieces?") to "You're as crazy as yo mama!". Dude was awesome. 

    Only the Lonely might be my favorite of his films. He and O'Hara were just great.

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