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Spankytoes

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  1. Fucking this. 8 posts in and I still can't tell WTF we're talking about.
  2. Do we have a bubble that I'm not aware of? We don't have a housing crisis/bailout to contend with this time.
  3. Angelo’s is probably a top 5 pizza spot in Manhattan. Stick with that And call it “Za” when you order it
  4. @PenelopeWitherspoon It was everything you would imagine it to be. We had 2 spots at one of the 10 seater tables after a short wait at the bar. We had the waiter design the menu for us since they don’t have one set. Meatballs and spinach for apps Seafood salad, baked clams and homemade mozzarella with roasted red peppers for the 1st course Soft shell crab and fried mozzarella for the 2nd course Sirloin with vinegary peppers, charbroiled lemon chicken and peas with onions and prosciutto for the main Assorted desserts to finish things off We had a few bottles of red wine in there and cappuccinos with dessert. Everything was served in just under 3 hours. Amazing place and well worth the price.
  5. I have a reservation at Rao's tomorrow night through a friend of a friend. Pretty stoked.
  6. Use a non-airport ATM for cash, charge everything else on a card with no FTFs. If you buy currency beforehand, you might as well pick up a Frommer's guide and a fanny pack to complete the look.
  7. Do you agree that the adverse could also be an effective tactic? That not all interactions between a white person and a POC are rooted in racism? I think people that don't give a shit also take up that flag to waive. It's only when the accused perp's life is sufficiently ruined for questionable conduct that the mob feels completely sated. The benefit of the doubt always lies on one side of the fence because you can't disprove a negative in these types of situations. Of course people cheer when a liar is rooted out, especially in today's social/political climate. But, even with the case that inspired this thread, no vindication is available. If you don't think this is equal to be falsely accused of rape, I don't know what to tell you. A rape still occurred, except on someone's honor and dignity. If they WERE in fact racist, they wouldn't care about the true accusation. For that reason alone, the suggestion that there is institutional racism in this country is ridiculous.
  8. Kind of like letting shit go instead of filming it, uploading it to social media and proclaiming the other party as a racist hate monger to capitalize on the victim mentality? Right, I'm sure this has no adverse results when said perpetrator is subject to a background check for employment. Just like being falsely accused of rape is fine so long as the person being wrongly accused is acquitted. No harm, no foul.
  9. The eventual fallout of giving your email to a company that will use it for marketing isn't worth $125.
  10. https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/ch7g0d/perverted_devil/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app
  11. If their moms were baring, perhaps they wouldn't be so poor.
  12. Backstreet Boys. Wells Fargo center in Philadelphia. August 17. 5th Row, Center Floor. Score!
  13. That’s awesome man. Thanks for the shoutout. I hope that more people travel the world playing the points game as it makes things extremely affordable. Half the fun is figuring out how to maximize your efforts to get the best value. I will be in Paris/Caen/Mont St. Michael/Normandy next month myself.
  14. It's a chain, but eating at Nando's is a must. They need to expand beyond D.C. and Chicago.
  15. Explain your rationale… A flight from DAL-LAX is $87.00 or 4,694 points on Southwest. That imputes a value of 1.9 cents per UR point. The same flight on United would probably be more expensive, but let’s assume that it was priced the same. United has a uniformed points redemption model. A domestic one-way flight is 12,500 United miles. So, at this valuation, you are receiving $0.007 cents per point. (Not to mention, United doesn’t fly this route direct from DFW) But let’s ignore that and say that the redemption valuation is identical at 1.8 cents per UR point. How is it better to transfer 12,500 UR points to United instead of 4,694 UR points to Southwest? You are expending an additional 7,806 UR points by going that route. Even if you are getting $0.02 per UR point based on the airfare cost, what advantage are you receiving by getting a better per points value when you are spending more UR points to achieve it? With regards to transferring to Hyatt or Marriott, I don’t understand how this could ever be a good value except in limited circumstances where you are a little short on an award stay and need to top off. Even at a 2:1 exchange rate, it would cost you 12,500 UR points to get one night at a Courtyard Marriott with a redemption value of 25,000 points per night. That’s enough for almost 3 segments of flying DAL-LAX based on the model above. Or, since the actual exchange is 1:1, 3 roundtrip flights from DAL-LAX on Southwest. (Plus an additional 3 tickets for your travel partner if you have a Companion Pass) Assuming that the room costs $200.00 per night, which is average for that redemption level, you are leaving a lot of value on the table. Hotels are slightly better redemption values than gift cards.
  16. Chelsea. Anything but Tottenham, Liverpool or Man U is fine, really.
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