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Superhero

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  1. Might as well add a 7th and name them after this nice family.
  2. Careful what you wish for. MIA might point the camera somewhere else.
  3. ¡Snek! on a MFing plane https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/snake-plane-delays-flight-australia-123398058
  4. I spent part of my childhood in South Africa during the 80s when racism was still an institutional thing. My sister and I attended an otherwise all-white school. Towards the end of the school year, we had substitute teacher was trying to control the classroom, and for whatever reason called me a chinaman. I stared her down, pointed a finger at her face, and told her in a calm voice that she better not ever call me, or anyone else, that ever again. The classroom went quiet. She started crying and left the classroom. Being discriminated against (even when I was amongst "my people" in middle school) sucked. The 2 other memorable moments were when a drunk guy started cussing at me and telling me to "go back where you're from" when I was riding a bus in Germany; and a redneck college kid spat at me my freshman year at Texas.
  5. That belongs in Holy Shit videos. How TF did so many mosquitoes get into the tent? Edit. Yup you belong in the box of shame.
  6. Soft and feels like nothing.
  7. My financial goal for 2025 was to hit $4M in liquid assets. If the market stays static from here until the end of the year, we should be cruising past that number by the early fall. Looking towards the end of 2025: Increase my 401K contribution % to absolutely, positively make sure I reach the $31K. I probably don't need to, but getting there faster never hurts. Stop renovating the damn house. In the past 4 years, we've redone the kitchen, replaced the windows, and renovated the upstairs baths. Everything looks great, but it'll be great to stop writing checks as well. I need to set up auto transfers from savings to my brokerage account so it doesn't just sit there in cash. After our bonuses last month, we have a pile that's being lazy and needs be put to work. The plan is still to keep working until my boy finishes college. With any luck, we should be in the 8-digit range by then.
  8. That's great! A few questions for you. 1. When you say max out your 401K, do you mean putting in $31K (including the catchup?) 3. What are you doing with the $75K that you're saving? What kind of investment are you putting it into? Or stuffing it in a coffee can? 4. Do you have any dependents?
  9. There was sound to that video?
  10. Hand picked, organic, locally sourced, GMO free, loose black current tea leaves. Duh.
  11. In the underappreciated category: Margin Call. Movie about the 2008 financial crisis. Just a bunch of people talking, but really good writing and acting. Amazing cast with Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Demi Moore, Stanley Tucci, etc. I think they all did it pro bono because the budget was $3.5M. The film only grossed $19.5M. It's on Amazon Prime now. Go watch it. Thank You for Smoking. Tobacco lobbyist with an identity crisis. Only grossed $39M worldwide. Jason Reitman wrote this and Up in the Air. Solid comedy. Another awesome cast with Aaron Eckhart, Sam Elliott, Ron Lowe, Katie Holmes, Maria Bello, William H Macy, Robert Duvall and JK Simmons. Sometimes I wonder if the cast does this for free after they read the script. Up in the Air. George Clooney flying around the country laying people off and having an identity crisis. Vera Farmiga (dat ass), Jason Bateman, Anna Kendrick, Sam Elliott, Danny McBride, Zach Galiwishhisnamewaseasiertopronounce and JK Simmons. JK Simmons should be in everything.
  12. Oh Trixie. Life will be less complicated if she just turns on Share My Location
  13. What was that guy doing? Making it rain? It looked like dollah bills in the air, on the floor. Also, that guy is probably dead after landing on his head.
  14. Either the video is > 2x speed or holy shit!
  15. Saw that on Reddit last week. Imagine being alone in a bio dome and you’re living with the corpse of your only friend Fred who died 5 years ago.
  16. Also, what does up up down down left right left right B A start do?
  17. Look at the big brain on Bevo&Pevo.
  18. But then the hot female teachers soliciting teenage boys thread would never continue to exist.
  19. Nothing wrong with drinking a blend. Snobs will tell you to only drink single malts, and I'll counter that a good blend is better than a shitty single barrel. A Johnny Walker Green blend of 15 year old whiskies at $50 is an absolutely steal. A lot of Japanese whiskies are also blends, but they aren't as good of a deal as they once were.
  20. At our church, there's a quick 3 minute time-out between worship and sermon to scoot the kids off to their Sunday school classes. During that time, the worship team will play an encore of the previous song. We unintentionally did a jazz version where everyone played something different. I tried to follow the keys, the bass tried to follow the acoustic, the drummer did something else completely. It was chaos but hilarious at the same time. We couldn't stop giggling before we exited stage left.
  21. My company has a suite at SoFi so that’s what I thought we would get… the attendants kept pointing towards the cheap seats and I thought there must be a terrible misunderstanding. Then I saw my coworker and it sank in that I would be sitting with the unwashed masses that night. Try logging into Mint mobile to check something on my daughter’s number. Took me 4-5 minutes of going in circles with the chatbot before I it finally let me talk to a human.
  22. I like a variety of beers. My preferences are ambers, lagers and hazy IPAs in that order. Double IPAs and stouts are vile and disgusting.
  23. This Voodoo Ranger IPA is not messing around. One can down and I'm already ready to go party and hit on random hotties.
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