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Baboontyme

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  1. If I had the room I'd buy all of the letters for my basement. Love me some Waffle House. Part of the allure is that they don't exist up here.
  2. The boys in my family must have mutant ear canals. When I was looking for a good pair of workout earbuds a couple of years ago I couldn't find any that would stay in my ears even with different sized tips. I finally settled on the Powerbeat Pros with the hook and they have great sound but no ANC. Got my 13 year old a pair of ANC buds on sale by Phillips but they don't stay in his ears, even trying all of the different tips. Absolutely want ANC for him as he's got some anxiety issues and random noise bothers him. Don't really want to spend $300 if I don't have to and I don't think airpod pros or whatever are going to stick in his ears any better than the Philips set we already have. I turn to the surl for recs.
  3. Santa definitely got my letter because the one thing I wanted for Christmas was an alternate broadcast of Philly NYK with Spike Lee and Screamin A
  4. Done. Every year I think it's the last I will have to do this and though I complain I'm going to be very sad when I don't have to do this anymore. Cheers y'all.
  5. Can I bitch about my kids or does it have to be wife and in-laws? I guess my bitch is more about getting old because I'm exhausted, it just hit midnight, they just laid down and now I have to keep myself awake with monster zero for another 3 hours until they're out so Santa can vomit under the tree. And then I'll have to put the prime rib on by 7. Regardless hope everyone has a happy Holiday and I'll be in my bunk watching Tulsa King with man made restless leg syndrome.
  6. Will ROFLBOX join NowThis in exile or will he stand and fight?
  7. I've never really looked very hard for prime before but when one is staring you in the face you have to secure the bag.
  8. I won't go near a Costco anymore. They are batshit bananas crowded every day, no matter time of day.
  9. Agree but I also have had experiences that have taught me that not all dogs will acclimate. At some point you have to stop trying before one of the other animals (or even humans) gets seriously injured. And also agree with others it was rather naive of you to assume that this dog would get along with your other dogs and be trained. The training is something you can work on. If it truly is NOT going to work because he is a danger to your other dogs a rescue is probably your best bet.
  10. The trailer was the coolest thing I've seen today. I will definitely be taking my daughter to this. If she lets me.
  11. Their Louisiana Lightning hot link, in my humble opinion as a person who has spent 92% of my life in a geographic region that thinks sausage is bratwurst (and puts ketchup on it), is probably the best sausage I've ever had. That's what she said.
  12. I am not local but I have had this shipped from a friend and also brought some home when I'm in the area and it is excellent. https://stuffedcajun.com/
  13. It was kind of an odd sequence, though. Like the guy's head was an over-inflated watermelon.
  14. + Rep for properly referring to him as Herc rather than Vic.
  15. Answer - they do not seem to be limited. I did searches for 4 tickets in miles and it let me get all the way to the purchase screen, and in one instance told me it was the last 4 seats. And they are not 1:1 dollar to miles. A 20k rapid reward one way fare looks to be about tree fiddy in dollars. I'm gonna do this I think. Spanky's original idea was the best one. Phx is perfect for us as we can stay at my inlaws condo on each end of the trip. They will be back in MI. I think I'm going to book the PHX > OGG > PHX and figure out the rest later. Appreciate the responses genuinely.
  16. Thanks @Chopper very helpful. We used to use ita's search engine to find flights home back in the early 00s when I lived in Austin and Google Flights wasn't a thing yet. One question that comes to mind is, when you said it would be hard to get 6 award tickets together (and I actually need 8 for r/t), does that include using SWA Rapid Rewards? On their site it seems like the Rapid Rewards tickets using miles have the same availability as other flights. I haven't played around enough yet to figure out how the miles translate to dollars but I assume it's not a true 1:1, i.e. a 17.5k leg in miles from PHX to OGG is not going to cost $175.
  17. The show is my wheelhouse and it's wildly entertaining to me. I was ready to bail after Sly was too much OG Rocky in episode 1 but I'm honestly pretty impressed with the chops and depth he has shown through the first 5 episodes. The weed scene was one of the best TV scenes in my recent memory. And he went pretty hard in E5 reciting the eulogy for his brother. It's funny if this were any random dipshit actor like Ian Ziering I wouldn't have even noticed the performance but since it was Stallone it stood out in a big way to me. Love the show, going to need further mob breakdown analysis from @billfromlaketravis
  18. Earlier this year during a Thursday night game the white ESPN pbp guy proclaimed that the Louisville QB, Malik Cunningham, was "shuckin and jivin" his way down the field. I was curious to see what would happen so I followed the guy on Twitter. People were tweeting at him and at ESPN so he/they were definitely aware. Crickets. No apology, no acknowledgement. Seems like sop in these situations is hope no one really notices and it goes away.
  19. I like the BK song. Mostly the chicken one. It's fun to shout out randomly as if I have Tourette's. Am I still allowed to say that? But no I will not be dining there anytime soon.
  20. Also fwiw I think we would want to go to OGG. Not sure if there are Maui specific tips. Most of the award costs seemed similar.
  21. Thanks @Spankytoes that does clear up some confusion. Delta does actually fly direct to HNL from DTW but I can see how that is not the best use of points. It's like like best case I could book for 74k per person. So it seems like the thing to do is basically just try to find deals on one way flights from West Coast airports searching through all of the travel portals for the various airlines and programs, and then when I find something I like for inbound and return, I book all 8 of those and then find the easiest way to get to Phoenix, LA or Seattle. Would you concur? So far the best I'm finding is 35k rt from Phoenix on SWA. A number of the portals search tools really seem to suck ass. Avios and FlyingBlue it seems like I would have better luck finding a needle in a haystack vs finding an award flight in July or August using their search tools. Are there any protips for navigating some of these sites? I can see how this would be a lot easier and more fun if I were traveling solo or just with a spouse. But I am determined to use these points on a big trip and HI has been a bucket list that I would like to do before my kids get too old.
  22. Thanks and I can kind of see a pathway there, I guess my general questions are more along the lines of how in the fuck did you figure out that that was the thing to do?
  23. Sorry in advance, going to ask some more virgin questions. I've been perusing TPG website and following on Twitter for a good deal of time before I even applied for anything. I've found some great resources but I'm not quite sure how to figure out what the best way to actually book anything is. So if I am looking at Hawaii. I have about 160k Chase points. I have about 175k Flex US Bank points. I will soon have 150k Cap One points. My home airport is DTW. I need to fly a family of 4. I would like to start with my Chase Points as I think these are the most flexible. Do I try to find SWA flights with like 4 connections because the exchange is good? I read an article on TPG about how you can use the KLM Skyblue and find flights from the Midwest to HI for 35k Chase points roundtrip. I've plugged in all kinds of dates and can't find anything to show available flights. I can also get 25% by straight booking through the Chase portal. Do I try to find cheap flights on like Google and then do this? Just not quite sure where to concentrate my efforts. Chase points for flights and then Flex perks points to book some lodging? My understanding is the Flex perks points are .01/1 regardless and no exchange.
  24. No doubt you are having worse luck than others in that department. I felt the same way for the first 3-4 weeks but my luck has been better lately. The load management is off the charts it feels like. Very few of these guys other than the guys who we drafted who we knew were going to be out awhile are actually injured. BI is just like no man I have a headache from smoking too much weed so I'm going to skip these 3 games. It's gone way past the second night of b2bs on the road. It's unpredictable. I feel like this is doldrums time for the Association. The care is at a season low for competitive teams. It will pick up after Christmas.
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