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  1. The Flying Ginsu. Can take out an terrorist from 10,000 feet and not even hurt his dog. https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-cia-has-a-flying-knife-missile-that-is-as-awful-as-1834781708
  2. I've done tons of traveling but have never cruised. Leaving from Miami for a week in the Eastern Caribbean at the end of May. Going with others who cruise regularly. Already have our shore excursions booked. Got the soft drink package but not getting the alcohol one. I love a glass of wine and a cocktail occasionally, but won't drink enough to warrant the almost $60 a day. Any tips from cruising veterans would be appreciated.
  3. Funny and clever. Matt Berry is a riot. Gardening at night.
  4. this may actually be the worst story i've read on gambling in a long time. Im NOT mad at the guy betting on Tiger and winning $1.2M. A lot of people bet on Tiger so thats pretty awesome. What I am mad at is the circumstances this guy went about betting on Tiger, and how the story is presented as a feel good story. But once you read into it, and its a terrifying story for this guy if Tiger had lost. This is literally the guidebook to how to become a broke gambling addict. whole story is below, but the gist is, this guy was $25k in debt just 4 months ago. Hit business went under, and its not explained how he managed to get out of $25k in debt in the last 4 months. He claims that he's never made a sports bet in his life, yet, he bet every last dollar he could "afford" on Tiger winning the masters because he had a good feeling. (afford is in quotes because it turns out this guy couldnt afford the loss) He's taken a loan out on his house, sold his amazon stock, and he's told his wife he's making the bet, and she just lets him do it. and then he takes $85k with him to Vegas and has to run around to find a sportsbook that will take a bet of that size, and finally William Hill accepts the bet and presto we all get the story of how this guy got 14/1 odds on Tiger winning and $85k turns into $1.275M https://ftw.usatoday.com/2019/04/masters-tiger-woods-bettor-james-adducci-who-won-million
  5. Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American people, than with your image in the history books.
  6. Yeah maybe Jesus will work.
  7. eh...fuck that shit. Here's some Motorhead.
  8. https://people.com/music/britney-spears-taking-me-time-amid-father-jamie-health-battle/ The star posted a picture of a quote which reads “Fall in love with taking care of yourself, mind, body, spirit” on Instagram on Wednesday, along with the caption: “We all need to take time for a little ‘me time.’ :)” A source tells PEOPLE exclusively that the singer checked into a facility for “all-encompassing wellness treatment.” According to another source close to the family, “Britney just needed to focus on herself” as she cares for her father Jamie after his “life-threatening” colon rupture, the source confirms. “Her dad being sick has taken a toll on her,” the source tells PEOPLE. “He nearly died and actually had another surgery a few weeks ago. He’s not doing well. They’re so close and it has been a lot. There is nothing dramatic going on with her — she just realized she needs to make sure to take time to care for herself.” Is that the loonie bin?
  9. How badly are we being ripped off on eyewear? Former industry execs tell all By DAVID LAZARUS MAR 05, 2019 | 5:00 AM Charles Dahan was one of the leading suppliers of frames to LensCrafters, before the company was purchased by optical behemoth Luxottica. Glasses that cost him $20 to make would be sold for five times that amount. (Luxottica) Charles Dahan knows from firsthand experience how badly people get ripped off when buying eyeglasses. He was once one of the leading suppliers of frames to LensCrafters, before the company was purchased by optical behemoth Luxottica. He also built machines that improved the lens-manufacturing process. inRead invented by Teads ADVERTISEMENT In other words, Dahan, 70, knows the eyewear business from start to finish. And he doesn’t like what’s happened. “There is no competition in the industry, not anymore,” he told me. “Luxottica bought everyone. They set whatever prices they please.” Dahan, who lives in Potomac, Md., was responding to a column I recently wrote about why consumer prices for frames and lenses are so astronomically high, with markups often approaching 1,000%. I noted that if you wear designer glasses, there’s a very good chance you’re wearing Luxottica frames. The company’s owned and licensed brands include Armani, Brooks Brothers, Burberry, Chanel, Coach, DKNY, Dolce & Gabbana, Michael Kors, Oakley, Oliver Peoples, Persol, Polo Ralph Lauren, Ray-Ban, Tiffany, Valentino, Vogue and Versace. Along with LensCrafters, Luxottica also runs Pearle Vision, Sears Optical, Sunglass Hut and Target Optical, as well as the insurer EyeMed Vision Care. And Italy’s Luxottica now casts an even longer shadow over the eyewear industry after merging last fall with France’s Essilor, the world’s leading maker of prescription eyeglass lenses and contact lenses. The combined entity is called EssilorLuxottica. Just so you know up front, I reached out to both Luxottica and its parent company with what Dahan told me. I asked if they’d like to respond to his specific points or to speak generally about optical pricing. Neither company responded, which was the same response I received the last time I contacted them. Apparently EssilorLuxottica feels no need to defend its business practices. Or it understands that no reasonable defense is possible. Dahan, a chemical engineer by training, established a company called Custom Optical in 1977 after designing a machine capable of making prescription lenses appear thinner. In short order he also was designing plastic and metal frames, and proposed to LensCrafters in 1985 that he supply the then-independent company. “They bought my lens machines, and soon I was selling them a few models of frames,” Dahan said. “Those were successful, so they kept buying more.” Buying glasses online can save you a lot of money. Here’s how to do it » Eventually, he said, his company was supplying LensCrafters with about 20% of its frames. “They called me their crown jewel,” Dahan said. E. Dean Butler, the founder of LensCrafters, remembers Dahan as “a real go-getter.” “He was a key supplier — good product at reasonable prices,” Butler, 74, said in a phone interview from Berlin, where he was meeting with optical-industry contacts. He’s no longer affiliated with LensCrafters. These days he’s based in England, but serves as a consultant to optical businesses worldwide. Both Butler and Dahan acknowledged what most consumers have long suspected: that the prices we pay for eyewear in no way reflect the actual cost of making frames and lenses. When he was in the business, in the 1980s and ’90s, Dahan said it cost him between $10 and $16 to manufacture a pair of quality plastic or metal frames. Lenses, he said, might cost about $5 a pair to produce. With fancy coatings, that could boost the price all the way to $15. He said LensCrafters would turn around and charge $99 for completed glasses that cost $20 or $30 to make — and this was well below what many independent opticians charged. Nowadays, he said, those same glasses at LensCrafters might cost hundreds of dollars. Butler said he recently visited factories in China where many glasses for the U.S. market are manufactured. Improved technology has made prices even lower than what Dahan recalled. “You can get amazingly good frames, with a Warby Parker level of quality, for $4 to $8,” Butler said. “For $15, you can get designer-quality frames, like what you’d get from Prada.” And lenses? “You can buy absolutely first-quality lenses for $1.25 apiece,” Butler said. Yet those same frames and lenses might sell in the United States for $800. Butler laughed. “I know,” he said. “It’s ridiculous. It’s a complete rip-off.” In 1995, Luxottica purchased LensCrafters’ parent company, U.S. Shoe Corp., for $1.4 billion. The goal wasn’t to get into the shoe business. It was to take control of LensCrafters’ hundreds of stores nationwide. Dahan said things went downhill for him after that. Luxottica increasingly emphasized its own frames over those of outside suppliers, he said, and Custom Optical’s sales plunged. Dahan was forced to close his business in 2001. “It wasn’t just me,” he said. “It happened to a lot of companies. Look at Oakley.” Indeed, the California maker of premium sunglasses was embraced by skiers and other outdoorsy types after it released its first sunglasses in 1984. It raised $230 million with an initial public offering of stock in 1995. Its biggest customer by far was Sunglass Hut, which, like LensCrafters, had stores in malls across the country. Luxottica purchased Sunglass Hut in early 2001. It promptly told Oakley it wanted to pay significantly lower wholesale prices or it would reduce its orders and push its own brands instead. Within months, Oakley acknowledged to shareholders that the talks hadn’t gone well and that Luxottica was slashing its orders. “We have made every reasonable effort to establish a mutually beneficial business partnership with Luxottica, but it is clear from this week's surprising actions that our efforts have been ignored,” Oakley’s management said in a statement at the time. The company’s stock immediately lost more than a third of its value. Luxottica acquired Oakley a few years later, adding it to Ray-Ban, which Luxottica obtained in 1999. “That’s how they gained control of so many brands,” Dahan said. “If you don’t do what they want, they cut you off.” Again, no one at Luxottica responded to my request for comment. As I’ve previously observed, online glasses sales hold potential for pushing retail eyewear prices lower, but the e-glasses industry still has a ways to go before posing a threat to the likes of EssilorLuxottica. It can be a challenge buying something so central to one’s appearance without first trying it on or receiving hands-on help with fitting. In the meantime, Dahan and Butler told me, federal authorities should step up and prevent price gouging for eyewear — just as they’ve done with other healthcare products, such as EpiPens. “Federal officials fell asleep at the wheel,” Dahan said. “They should never have allowed all these companies to roll into one. It destroyed competition.” Butler said it should be clear from EssilorLuxottica’s practices that the company has too much market power. “If that’s not a monopoly,” he said, “I don’t know what is.” I couldn’t agree more. Regulators are currently wringing their hands over further consolidation in the wireless industry, with a proposed merger between Sprint and T-Mobile raising the prospect of just three major carriers. The eyewear market is in considerably worse shape. That should be clear to anyone.
  10. Posted a song in the Obscure bands thread that reminded me of Dave Edmunds, which got me thinking about Rockpile. A supergroup before there was a name - Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, Billy Bremner, Terry Williams. Let's hear some of your favorite bashers! Another album I had and lost, MaxHorn posted it on his old blog a while back, glad to get another copy of it. Credited to Dave Edmunds, but as you can see in the video, it's Rockpile: Again, Rockpile masquerading as a Nick Lowe solo effort (Kind of like Rod Stewart with the Faces):
  11. He's being called out for being a dirty old man: I felt him get closer to me from behind. He leaned further in and inhaled my hair. I was mortified. I thought to myself, “I didn’t wash my hair today and the vice-president of the United States is smelling it. And also, what in the actual fuck? Why is the vice-president of the United States smelling my hair?” He proceeded to plant a big slow kiss on the back of my head. My brain couldn’t process what was happening. I was embarrassed. I was shocked. I was confused. There is a Spanish saying, “tragame tierra,” it means, “earth, swallow me whole.” I couldn’t move and I couldn’t say anything. I wanted nothing more than to get Biden away from me. https://www.thecut.com/2019/03/an-awkward-kiss-changed-how-i-saw-joe-biden.html NOT SO FAST In a Medium post released late Sunday, Stephanie Carter addressed a viral photo in which Biden had his hands on her shoulders and appeared to be whispering in her ear during the swearing-in ceremony for her husband in 2015. “As the sole owner of my story, it is high time that I reclaim it — from strangers, Twitter, the pundits and the late-night hosts,” Carter wrote. “I won’t pretend that this will be the last of that picture, but it will be the last of other people speaking for me.” Carter said Biden had hugged her because he sensed she was “uncharacteristically nervous” and leaned in to thank her for letting her husband serve in the Obama administration. The then-vice president, she added kept his hands on her shoulders “as a means of offering his support”. “But a still shot taken from a video — misleadingly extracted from what was a longer moment between close friends — sent out in a snarky tweet — came to be the lasting image of that day,” Carter added. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2019/apr/01/donald-trump-latest-news-mueller-report-border-politics-live
  12. Used to have a pretty large bookmark collection but no more. www.fxcuisine.com - badass blog that's been dormant for years. still a great archive for rustic european dishes. www.seriouseats.com - venerable source... love their approach and methodology, but honestly the recipes aren't very successful when i make em https://www.youtube.com/user/BonAppetitDotCom/videos a bit too hipstery, but decent entertainment value https://www.youtube.com/user/americastestkitchen it is what it is. i do enjoy the equipment testing https://www.youtube.com/user/stevescooking home-cook doing mostly british and pan-european stuff https://www.youtube.com/user/adamliaw the only one i earnestly recommend. chinese cuisine. seriously high hit-rates replicating these recipes
  13. For me these days it's "Dumbass Shit on Facebook." Used to be "Favorite Subreddit" but the posters have lost the plot (even on the old board it devolved into a lot of plastic plate/sweet tea discussion). On the football board I usually check "Tell me about aggy." On the old board it was "Adhawk" and I used to look forward to "Errant Tire and Wheel" updates. I like the "video/pic of Holy Shit" except for those fucking Russian building climber people and their death wishes.
  14. They don't get enough credit. I know we talked about Neil Finn the Fleetwood Mac thread.....but we shall enjoy this. Saw them about 4 years ago and they are still killing it. This is just fun. And watching Will Lee on the bass makes my heart smile. I can't imagine what it must feel like to write a song an and then live the experience at the 4:00 mark.
  15. Didn't see a thread and couldn't resist with the title. Just had Pho Envy - not a big Pho guy but it was amazing. Sitting here drinking the remnants of the broth at the bottom of my bowl. Got it from Uber Eats and the way they packaged it to go was great. Noodles and raw filet mignon in the bowl - broth and fixings on the side - so you can dump it in and have it be just as fresh had you sat down at the restaraunt. Sliced fresh japs were killer. They have a lot more on the menu besides pho, too (couldn't resist getting some cream cheese wontons). Will definitely be eating this again. Other good spots?
  16. Austin Shuffield is his name. Bartender (well was) at High And Tight in Deep Ellum. This happened in Deep Ellum. I saw this video released a few nights ago and it has since blown up. Has gone viral all over the country. While he was in jail for the the little he was, his Facebook page was blasted. A lot of his page was public. His last post he made reached over 11,000 new comments since anyone could comment. They raided his whole Facebook page with comments.His friend list also went from over 900 friends to about 660 before he deactivated it. His bond was only $2,000. Seems low for having a gun in your hand and causing assault. Her lawyer and other activist groups and pushing for multiple felony counts being charged. Right now, it's just 3 misdemeanor charges. You can search his name Austin Shuffield and tons will pop up. The video released by the news stations is not the full video. It does not capture what happened leading up to him punching the shit out of her. The unedited version you can see the gun he had in his hand. This is the unedited version. Article below...
  17. Then this shit is rigged. Hell, even if the Knicks win it.
  18. Starting this thread to keep the F35 thread free for bashing the F35 and quoting Top Gun. Starting it here and not the CR so it hopefully doesn't get ate up with stupid. https://ahvalnews.com/nato/turkey-nato-stand-coming-head-times Erdoğan’s insistence on buying Russian-made S-400 air defence missiles and the country’s pivot towards the east is an obvious problem for NATO, which was founded to counter Russian power, the Times said. Turkey signed a contract with Moscow worth a reported $2.5 billion in December 2017 for the purchase of the S-400s despite objections from its NATO allies, who are concerned that the system could collect data on NATO jets and undermine their defences. “We can’t have the F-35 and S-400 in the same place,” the Times quoted Hodges as saying. “I would want to know more about what Turkey is asking for with the Patriot that industry is not willing to give them.” Choose your bedfellow, Turkey. Choose it wisely.
  19. oh its a Sneaky fucking cougar that somehow got stuck 50 feet up the tree in your fucking yard...... Side note: turns out cougars have learned how to bungee jump as well:
  20. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/02/27/oprah-winfrey-weight-watchers-international-ww/3002180002/
  21. Things are escalating from yesterday... https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/world/asia/kashmir-india-pakistan-aircraft.html
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