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@luhmann with chocolate sprinkles?
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
with chocolate sprinkles?
or as they are know locally: mouse shit
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Here we go again...
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
Obviously they're assuming robots are all male.
Because of their dongles?
Because they act logically
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@dragoon Is that what Amazon Prime means ?
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This has to be parody. It can't be real.
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@dcon I don't see the problem.
When your voting power depends on how many lines there are drawn in the map, you draw more lines in the map.
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@polygeekery Billy Idol did it back in the film-80s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYKLmlMauOE
"Since I'm in first class, they let me do... pretty much whatever the hell I want!"
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@blakeyrat ha. I forgot about that. I would be OK with Billy Idol playing on one of my flights.
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@polygeekery One of only two watchable Adam Sandler films, assuming you're over the age of 15. (The other is Click, and that one's borderline.)
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@blakeyrat I rate Click in the top 5 worst films I've ever seen.
Here's a magic remote control that could let you fast forward, rewind, record and do all sorts of interesting things. Who even knows what changing channels would do. No, let's not explore any of that and just have a shallow morality tale about fast forwarding through your life
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@jaloopa If you can get past the part where he spends seemingly 47 minutes farting on Fonzie's head, the movie gets pretty sweet genuinely. The same way that The Wedding Singer is pretty sweet.
Adam Sandler can pull that kind of role off, if he can quit being Adam Sandler long enough to do it.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
@polygeekery One of only two watchable Adam Sandler films, assuming you're over the age of 15. (The other is Click, and that one's borderline.)
Wrong. Well, I haven't watched Click. But you're still wrong.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
@polygeekery One of only two watchable Adam Sandler films, assuming you're over the age of 15. (The other is
ClickMr. Deeds.)FTFY. Click was terrible.
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@luhmann said in In other news today...:
@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
with chocolate sprinkles?
or as they are know locally: mouse shit
I think I've mentioned this before, but, there are some areas where ice cream sprinkles are called 'jimmies'. The looks one gets for asking for jimmies on their ice cream in places where it means something rather different can be priceless.
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
@luhmann said in In other news today...:
@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
with chocolate sprinkles?
or as they are know locally: mouse shit
I think I've mentioned this before, but, there are some areas where ice cream sprinkles are called 'jimmies'. The looks one gets for asking for jimmies on their ice cream in places where it means something rather different can be priceless.
Do people in such areas also ask for their jimmies to be rustled prior to use?
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
@luhmann said in In other news today...:
@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
with chocolate sprinkles?
or as they are know locally: mouse shit
I think I've mentioned this before, but, there are some areas where ice cream sprinkles are called 'jimmies'. The looks one gets for asking for jimmies on their ice cream in places where it means something rather different can be priceless.
Can confirm.
Source: Grew up in upstate NY. Also, pop and hoagie.
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@karla said in In other news today...:
@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
@luhmann said in In other news today...:
@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
with chocolate sprinkles?
or as they are know locally: mouse shit
I think I've mentioned this before, but, there are some areas where ice cream sprinkles are called 'jimmies'. The looks one gets for asking for jimmies on their ice cream in places where it means something rather different can be priceless.
Can confirm.
Source: Grew up in upstate NY. Also, pop and hoagie.
Is that "bag" or "sack" territory?
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@da-doctah said in In other news today...:
@karla said in In other news today...:
@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
@luhmann said in In other news today...:
@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
with chocolate sprinkles?
or as they are know locally: mouse shit
I think I've mentioned this before, but, there are some areas where ice cream sprinkles are called 'jimmies'. The looks one gets for asking for jimmies on their ice cream in places where it means something rather different can be priceless.
Can confirm.
Source: Grew up in upstate NY. Also, pop and hoagie.
Is that "bag" or "sack" territory?
If you are referring to flexible cloth (or paper or plastic) containers, I refer to them as bags.
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@karla said in In other news today...:
@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
@luhmann said in In other news today...:
@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
with chocolate sprinkles?
or as they are know locally: mouse shit
I think I've mentioned this before, but, there are some areas where ice cream sprinkles are called 'jimmies'. The looks one gets for asking for jimmies on their ice cream in places where it means something rather different can be priceless.
Can confirm.
Source: Grew up in upstate NY. Also, pop and hoagie.
My mother says it (which is why I know about it - she's the one getting the funny looks), and she grew up in Massachusetts, so I am guessing its a Northeast thing. OTOH, she says 'tonic' (at least when she's not paying attention, she usually says 'soda' more recently), so regionalisms are definitely alive and well.
Filed Under: She likes Moxie, too, though that's more of a Maine and New Hampshire thing really.
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article @boner posted said in In other news today...:
A debate began recently about whether the acceptable way to wipe your ass is the standing or sitting position
What? How the frick does that work? Wouldn't the act of standing up collapse the cavity and make it pointless to wipe in that position? Am I missing something??!!?!
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@Polygeekery It looks like it's a real thing.
United Airlines was asked for comment and said only "We would definitely drag U2 off the flight."
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@karla How about in line vs. on line?
And (now way off-topic) perhaps you're familiar with Garbage Plates?
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
"We would definitely drag U2 off the flight."
United Airlines doing something right for a change? Unbelievable!
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@dreikin said in In other news today...:
@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
@luhmann said in In other news today...:
@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
with chocolate sprinkles?
or as they are know locally: mouse shit
I think I've mentioned this before, but, there are some areas where ice cream sprinkles are called 'jimmies'. The looks one gets for asking for jimmies on their ice cream in places where it means something rather different can be priceless.
Do people in such areas also ask for their jimmies to be rustled prior to use?
No need to be so Kurt about it.
Filed Under: I r a grate @ spellar. But not so great at punnish-ment.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
I refer to them as bags.
But do you say "bag" or "bayg"?
Bag
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@lolwhat said in In other news today...:
@karla How about in line vs. on line?
In line. I think.
Sleep in or sleep late?
Remember, I've been in NY for a for 27 years. I may misremember what I used to say.
Also, I lived in a foster home with a family from Philadelphia as a teenager so I learned to say soda before I came to NYC. I never slip and say pop anymore.
And (now way off-topic) perhaps you're familiar with Garbage Plates?
I've never actually had a Garbage Plate but I am familiar.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
The manager told police the man had drank an 18-ounce bottle of beer and three cans of malt beverage, according to the report.
I say that sounds about fair. If I was him, I'd offer to drop my lawsuit over getting locked in the cooler overnight if they'd drop the retail theft charge.
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@lolwhat said in In other news today...:
@karla How about in line vs. on line?
Shopping cart, carriage, buggy, trolley, or... I think there is at least one more but I can't recall.
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
@lolwhat said in In other news today...:
@karla How about in line vs. on line?
Shopping cart, carriage, buggy, trolley, or... I think there is at least one more but I can't recall.
...handcart, pushcart, basket, four-wheeler....
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
I say that sounds about fair. If I was him, I'd offer to drop my lawsuit over getting locked in the cooler overnight if they'd drop the retail theft charge.
That was my first thought, but according to the article although the cooler was locked employees were still there and the store claims he only had to knock to be let out but made no attempt to attract attention.
Although certain stories come to mind ... I suppose it's not entirely impossible that it didn't occur to him.
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@da-doctah said in In other news today...:
@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
@lolwhat said in In other news today...:
@karla How about in line vs. on line?
Shopping cart, carriage, buggy, trolley, or... I think there is at least one more but I can't recall.
...handcart, pushcart, basket, four-wheeler....
I simply call it a 'cart.' I guess that's short for shopping cart, but I don't think I ever use that form.
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@carrievs said in In other news today...:
according to the article although the cooler was locked employees were still there and the store claims he only had to knock to be let out but made no attempt to attract attention
Regardless. They hadn't the slightest clue that he was back there, and that posed both a security risk to the store and a safety risk to him. For all they know, he could've had a sleeping disorder and already been asleep when they locked up. Maybe he was on the floor in cardiac arrest and needed urgent medical attention (obviously not, because he woke up the next morning, but he could've been). Or maybe he was just too embarrassed to bang on the door and ask to be let out. Or too afraid that if he drew notice they'd accuse him of trying to get locked in so that he could steal stuff after they left, and have him arrested.
All of those are reasons why you keep track of who's gone into the cooler and who's gone out, and why you walk through it or at least have a look inside to verify that nobody's in it before you lock up for the night. I mean, it's kind of just common sense that you keep track of who's gone into the cooler and note whether they come back out, and you check before you lock it up for the night. You don't want somebody lying dead on the floor in there all night just because you didn't poke your head in for a look around.
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Sex robots? We don't need no stinkin' sex robots.
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@polygeekery Last dance with Mary Jane, I guess. Or maybe...
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@boomzilla The worse part is, he was not browsing some random obscure website, it was on Azure's admin interface.
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
@lolwhat said in In other news today...:
@karla How about in line vs. on line?
Shopping cart, carriage, buggy, trolley, or... I think there is at least one more but I can't recall.
Groceries - Shopping cart.
Babies - Strollers
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Prices of butter have been big news here too, mainly in connection to Christmas pastry (much of it is made from “Linz batter”, which contains a lot of butter).
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The article also mentions something most here probably already know:
Google Chrome is currently the world’s number one desktop browser with a share of no less than 59.48 percent, while Microsoft Edge is far behind with 5.65 percent share.
So, how's that "pre-installed software advantage" going for you, Microsoft?
(Well, I suspect that those numbers are for all platforms, rather than just desktop, but whatev'.)
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