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Loot the bodies, quickly dispersing the bones in the process so that, if they reanimate, it will be fucking funny. Most of the guys I know who aren't into sports are into something else, music/family/business/motorcycle club in one case and law/engineering/politics in another. There are probably a few geeks who don't talk about not being into sports who are, in fact, not into sports.

Has anyone bought the new Hyrule Warriors? Any compelling reasons to buy it if you already have the original?

If it’s not college football or TCU, I don’t care until the Mavs or Stars make the playoffs. Stopped caring about pro football when the Cowboys started sucking after the introduction of the salary cap with an exception in 2007 when I was in a fantasy league. Except for the Mavs’ playoff runs, haven’t regularly watched pro basketball since Jordan hung it up the second time. Never cared for baseball much until TCU got really good and they’re the limit of my interest. Never cared for soccer, wrestling, or motor sports. Don’t like it much when people say “sportsball”, because there’s rarely a need to shit on someone else’s interests unless it is causing problems in their lives.

Freakonomics is the name of a book by a Chicago economist (Levitt) and a writer (Dubner). Levitt shot to fame in the late ‘90s for a paper that purported to show that the early ‘90s drop in the crime rate was largely the result of legalizing abortion. Other economists dug into the paper and discovered there were serious issues with the standard error or something like that. Another economist came along at around the same time and published a paper showing that it wasn’t abortion, but decreasing levels of childhood lead exposure. I don’t recall if her paper ran into problems later.

A few years back, my grandmother got a call from "my cousin" saying that he was in jail in Oklahoma, please don't tell Dad, and please wire money. This guy sounded like my cousin and even knew our informal nickname for my grandmother. She called my uncle instead and learned that my cousin was at work. They tried the same scam using my name a week later, but she called me instead.I was really glad she didn't get taken in.

Your bank may offer a Venmo competitor.

Maybe on the first part and definitely on the second part. He's also probably saying you're fat.

Leftward creep causes as much of the backup in the left lane as left lane hogs. When there are three or more lanes on the highway, drivers almost invariably leave the right lane and take up residence in the middle lane(s) regardless of their speed. This leads to tailgating and large clumps of drivers in the middle lanes, which makes it difficult and even dangerous to move between the passing lane and the middle lane(s). Up here in DFW, at least, it is so bad that the right lane is often virtually empty. This leads to the middle lane(s) traveling at a certain speed, a slightly faster left lane that can't move over, and a right lane that is a light mix of the very slow and the very fast.

Sausage Party crossed a few lines and got beat up in the press pretty bad. Django crossed lines, but is too old for this thread. Nonetheless, Tarantino would probably get a pass if he remade Amos and Andy. The problem isn't snowflakes, actors, or directors, as much as gutless studios and the need to make tons of money overseas.

This whole time I figured she just left off "cock" when talking about hunting.

I never lived in Austin or went to UT, but I picked up a David Garza song for free from Amazon a few years ago, "Dead French Dudes". Good song. Found a picture of Cruiserweight.

Which is what was shown in Holden's vision, multiple other gates and other systems. The spoilered comments are book spoilers.

I have a few thoughts on Aldi, which is where I do most of my grocery shopping. 1) Their chocolate bars are very hard to beat in terms of price and quality. 2) Eggs and milk are among the lowest priced. 3) Frozen food is a great place to shop for one or two, but it is not cost competitive on family-sized portions, which they generally do not have. 4) They change their selection to match the location's clientele. The one I shop at has a selection of hummus, different cheeses, and even full-fat yogurt. The next closest one has ready-made sandwiches and similar deli items. 5) The pre-made pizzas cannot be beat in terms of quality and price. I can buy two for the cost of one from Walmart. 6) The fruits and veggies are priced well, but they're organic and do not keep as long. 7) Meat is hit-or-miss. They have some good stuff and some very average stuff. 8 ) Their soup selection is surprisingly good. No more Campbells or Progresso for me, I'll stick with Aldi's store brands. To give you an idea about the prices, I bought a quart of full-fat yogurt, a large jar of peanut butter, a thing of cream cheese, a loaf of bread, a car container of chewing gum, and a gallon of milk for $11 yesterday. The chewing gum is $3-4 by itself at Walmart.

I re-watched Conan the Barbarian last night with my 14 year-old son. I haven't seen it in a few years, but still have most of the dialogue from the theatrical release memorized, (but we were watching the director's cut). My son had never seen it. It has the most extensive nudity of any movie we've watched together, but the sex scenes are, for the most part, far tamer than what he's seen on Stargate SGU or House, MD. The soundtrack is still great, even enough to offset the weak acting (along with the cinematography). I've spoilered comments about the director's cut.

Interstate 60 (from 2002). Pretty much an all-star cast. A nice, light-hearted movie, the kind that isn’t very serious and, for that reason, wouldn’t be made today.

Since he said “my daughter” and not “our daughter”, I’m hoping he hasn’t been married to his second wife for that long.

The CDC has reported that suicides are up 30% since 1999.

Have you showed them videos of speed runner Arcus playing Ninja Gaiden? That got my son interested.

You should have offered to eat all of the ice cream so she's not tempted.

I choose patient, legal, and safe. When there is no foreseeable break in traffic, I turn right and find somewhere to double back. Your way is only “safe” once you’re in the center turn lane, by which point you may have caused a wreck in the lanes coming from your right because they locked it up due to the idiot swerving into traffic.

In Texas, exceeding the posted speed limit is only prima facie evidence of speeding. Conditions may warrant a higher speed that is perfectly safe and legal. And yeah, Texas is one of the minority of states that takes this approach to speeding. As far as I know, treating a center turn lane as a merge lane isn't legal anywhere in the US. It is dangerous because the oncoming drivers often have no way of knowing which lane the left-turning driver will try to occupy.

Hope you don’t mean a center turn lane, because it is not legal to use those as merge lanes.

Totally agree with you about women and rock. But I'll stand by my comment that Nirvana is too punk if we consider genres like metal and punk separate and distinct from rock. We could probably talk about them as a crossover rock act, like we do with country and Latin groups. That's fair and I'd totally concede their placement atop rock bands formed since '85.

"Clear successor" is a poor choice of words. "Readily identifiable influence" (or "ripped off") would be a better term. We can look at songs in, let's say, the Stone Temple Pilots' catalog and say, "That's a Zep knock-off." Or, "That's a Beatles knock-off." Even with newer music, we can still do that, asking facetiously if certain bands "think it is 1973 (or whatever year is relevant)". The popular styles of punk in the last 25 years seem to owe just as much or more to pre-existing pop-punk lineages than Nirvana.

I'm 38 now. I was 12 years old and in 6th grade when I spent Christmas break watching "Smells Like Teen Spirit" creep up MTV's Top 10 chart, finally knocking off G'n'R's "November Rain" to claim the number one spot. Honestly, I don't know how to assess Nirvana's impact. Punk became a legitimate, hit-making genre, but we got Green Day, Blink182, Fall Out Boy, and tons of emo bands. Looking back at the 1990s, the SoundScan revolution, and grunge. Nirvana is sort of like Pink Floyd: Everyone wears the shirts and buys the albums, but there was never a clear successor and their influence is diffuse.