Lurker > dancer62

Bank it.

5 million yen sounds even more impressive. Multimillionaire!

In US dollars, I'd only be a thousandaire.

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Great fun offroading with supercars with zero ground clearance.

Forza Horizon

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Where is the "like all" option?

I can't choose. Coffee is a necessity, good craft beer is a luxury, soda is good for everyday. Huh.

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I always buy from private owners, offer what I think the cars is worth based on what things as a mechanic I will have to repair and replace.

I would never buy from a dealership, that option stopped making sense in the 1970s.

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Contract. Get paid at the end of the semester, I invoice the hours I've taught, team taught, and spent in meetings.

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Clearwine posted...

I am currently in Singapore, South East Asia. Which brands of beer from this region should I not miss out?

I tried Kirin (from Thailand?) which seemed on the weaker side, and Bintang from Indonesia, tasted worse than generic western beer.

Kirin Ichiban is Japanese
Tsingtao is Chinese
Singha is Thai

It's been 15 years since I was in that part of the world, but I remember them as being pretty good. Had a Kirin at Narita airport, in a noodle shop. Fun times. Singha was pretty much everyday tipple in Bangkok.

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Way too expensive. I might spend $4 for a half-dozen glazed.

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Craft beer

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Ha! I made French toast and fried ham.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

How can anyone with any semblance of intelligence still think he should be president?

The Republican national committee that nominated him.

The Democratic national committee that found an even worse choice to run against him.

According to the major political parties, the best and brightest candidates for President from the entire eligible population of the US in 2016, were a reality TV "personality" and the comedy team of Hil&billy. Sort of makes you wonder. If it was the plot of a TV show, it would be criticized as unbelievable.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Buy a Honda.

I got a 93 Accord for 3k in 2007 or so and it lasted me 10+ years

Hondas are generally reliable, but Hondas have interference engines, if the timing belt breaks, it destroys the engine. Timing belts are replaced every 100,000 miles or so. If it hasn't been serviced at the right intervals, you have trouble.

Toyotas have non-interference engines, when the timing belt breaks, you just have the inconvenience of a tow to a shop to have the belt replaced.

All cars have their idiosyncrasies and weak spots. This is why you need a mechanic, particularly for older cars.

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$2000-$3000 car? Don't buy from a dealer, all you'll get is stuff they picked up on speculation for $500 at auctions. Buy from a private party. Check Craigslist.

If you don't know much about cars, take your potential buy to a mechanic and get an opinion. Cheap to spend $50 to save $3000.

Even cheaper, spend the $300 on the new alternator for the car you already have. That avoids the issue of sales tax, license, and insurance for another car, probably $350 tax and license and $100/month insurance.

BTW, Carfax or similar will tell you ownership and warranty/insurance repairs, pretty meaningless for a car with 150,000-200,000 miles. Take it to a mechanic or bring a mechanic with you.

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SilentSeph posted...

If it's pepperoni then I'm inhaling it no matter what

even better adding mushrooms or pineapple (not both)

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PatrickMahomes posted...

Hmm yeah I mean I'm not trying to become a pro or anything, I just wanted a decent set to call my own and get it with little hassle. Price isn't too much of an object, I used nothing but credit card rewards points!

How do you get them fitted when they're ordered online?

You buy clubs at the pro shop where you play and get them fitted there. Afterward, you know what to order online.

Again, you can play a good game of Par 3 golf with just a 9-iron and a putter, buy those from your local pro shop. For a Regulation course, add a driver and 3-iron. Once you know what fits you, and how to choose clubs, you can actually use a bag full of clubs.


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Ouch! Overpriced!

Wilsons, not bad, but you need them fitted, and try them out.

Buy a driver, a 9-iron, and a putter fitted to you at the pro shop where you play, enough to play a decent game. You don't need the driver if you're playing a par-3 Executive course, just a 9 and putter. Then add clubs a piece at a time.

My best clubs (and my teaching clubs) are all thrift shop and pawnshop finds. I don't think I've ever paid more than $5/club even for Callaways.

I couldn't afford to teach an adult ed beginners class every summer if I outfitted a class of 24 with new clubs.

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SunWuKung420 posted...

None of them. Make better choices.

This

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Mead posted...

got em

sure, kid

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Another attention-seeker. Why would anyone care? He might be a furry, too, apparently squirrelly enough.

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You're wet

Yes, it's raining

Perhaps you'd better both come inside

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I've been playing Forza Horizon 4 for a year, and it keeps getting better with new weekly, daily, and hourly challenges. Just done with a Black Friday sale of rare cars, December has a new car giveaway every day. Best driving game ever!

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Mead posted...

Three

The rest are just those same 3 pokemon but with different hairstyles

Sounds right.

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Classic Eye Scream trope.

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Just staying home. I might check out some online deals but really don't plan to spend much if anything.

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Kyuubi4269 posted...

To be fair, lots of women are given 39 hour contracts to be able to avoid having to support pregnant workers.

And that excludes unpaid "women's work" at home: housekeeping, cooking, laundry, childcare, are still primarily female responsibilities in most households.

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Haven't used cable in years. Have an antenna for local TV, used a Wii for a Netflix selection box until I got a $50 streaming Bluray player. I guess my Xbox One would do the same thing.

I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon, so I have Prime, and Prime Video is good enough that I cancelled Hulu and plan to drop Netflix too.


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In the 50s, futurists worried that automation would reduce the workweek so much that it would be a problem providing enough recreation. Look at the Jetsons.

They never thought that jobs would be outsourced and that we would become a minimum wage service economy.

Similarly, in the 1960s, illegal drugs would never be a significant problem, drug users would sedate themselves and drop out of society. No one predicted that the 10% of problem users would consume 90% of the treatment resources, and that drug-financed gang warfare with juvenile shooters would make the gangster wars of the 20s look quaint.


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Star Wars pretty much died off after the first movie. Clever idea, then the poor thing got beat to death with a boring stick, and has just been coasting on toy sales since.

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bank card
drivers license
professional license
discount cards for drugstores and grocery stores
old business cards from friends
voter ID
$14 cash money
teachers discount card for US Toys
comics clipped from newspapers
library cards
health insurance cards
car insurance cards
small change, quarters, dimes, pennies
golf course driving range tokens
postage stamps
lint, illegible scraps of paper, old faded post-it notes
a golf tee (?)


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Go for it

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Why would anyone care? Except maybe your parents?

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faramir77 posted...

I dip the crackers into the soup. I don't like them going mushy in the soup.

This. Best with vegetable beef soup, necessary with chili. With hot&sour soup, I like to float crispy noodles. With beef stew, I like to dip crusty French or Italian bread.

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Nope. Used to, though. Holidays are pretty meaningless for hospital workers and entertainers.

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Llamachama posted...

Don't hate the country, hate it's terrible leaders.

With the entire population to draw from for the last Presidential election, the best and brightest the major political parties could find to represent the United States were the failed Arkansas comedy team of Hil/billy and an obnoxious reality TV "star" who doesn't know when to shut up.

Greatest country, terrible leaders, even worse media.

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Downloading a 2.5Gb update at 341Kbps.

A snail visits Manhattan, gets mugged by a gang of turtles. Police ask if he can identify his assailants. Snail: "I don't know, it happened so fast!"

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Hmm... I'm having beef stew for lunch, dipping hunks of crusty French bread in the gravy.

French Dip is also a favorite, as are Hot Beef Sandwiches. Bacon Cheeseburgers. Submarine Sandwiches. Philly Cheesesteak. Tuna salad on toast. Ham salad on a bun. Biscuits and sausage gravy. Reuben sandwich. Gyros.

And I want meat on my pizza, either pepperoni, sausaage, Canadian bacon, ham, or BBQ beef.

Let's not forget trenchers, which predated plates. Meat and bread together are traditional.

So, no, I won't give up a thing.

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Good idea that fell apart almost immediately?

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Bog slow

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I never thought I was smart enough to be able to skip lectures. Also hard to get recommendations or independent study if you don't have contact with your profs. Even more important in grad school, where you're pretty conspicuous if you're not there in a class of 5 or 10.

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Dante

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Had to have my Golden put to sleep at age 12. Cancer pressing on the pericardium, pain, trouble breathing, toward the end all she would eat was pizza. She stayed game, tail wagging, until she was too weak to stand. The veterinarian came to our home, tranquilized her to doggy Nirvana.

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Drilled rotors

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Outstanding, everything gets better and better.

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CaptainStrong posted...

Cuz that worked out so well in 2016.

Yeah, Hil/billy were "moderate"? They were objectionable enough to lose to a reality TV "personality".

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Thrift shop hat? Keeps the sun out of his eyes. Why would it have to mean anything?

A cursory search for BTS yields:
Bangtan Boys
(my favorite) Bangkok Skytrain Tours/Bangkok Transit System
Business Technology Services
Base Transceiver System
Better Than Sex
Back To School
Broadcast Technical StandardsSystem
Battery Temperature Sensor
Be There Soon

If I'm ever in Thailand again, maybe I can get a Bangkok Skytrain Tours BTS hat.

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Unbridled9 posted...

23 hours a day, 7 days a week, not counting bathroom breaks.

Ah! Mother of young children, apparently!

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I used to work three or four jobs, 18-20 hours/day six days/week, 6-14 hours Sunday. Now I'm retired, so 2 hours/day mostly emails/research/planning, with 5 hours teaching three classes on Saturday.

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If you are bragging to non-gamers about Pokemon, you obviously have other social problems, too.

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wolfy42 posted...

Woah pokemon is into S&M now? Wow that series has matured.

Scary!

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DevilSummoner1 posted...

Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey

Super Robot Taisen OG Saga Endless Frontier
The World Ends With You
Nostalgia
Soma Bringer
Dragon Quest IX

and although the DS is mostly hopeless for action games:
Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars

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Lived at the edge of town near a cornfield, mice would get in to the house in winter, had to set out mousetraps.

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