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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Having to run to a physical store rather than opening my Amazon app every time the house runs out of paper towels is annoying,
It would never occur to me not to run to a physical store for something like that.
Grocery shopping in NYC sucks...I order just about everything online. I take full advantage of Amazon Subscribe and Save.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
1½ rolls
I'd be fucking panicking. I don't tolerate that level of risk.
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@pie_flavor They're trying to tax people's freedom of association?
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@pie_flavor All it says is "Access Denied" in a big scary bold font. Guess that my IP headers here from Europe don't have a sufficient number of freedom-bits set.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Guess that my IP headers here from Europe don't have a sufficient number of
freedomadvertising-abuse-bits set.
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@Luhmann Same difference these days.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
some adaptation
Have you tried a larger cluebat?
Mostly works for programmers. Their programs… not so much. Most machines don't have pain sensors.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor All it says is "Access Denied" in a big scary bold font.
He told you to ingnore the wall-ish bits.
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Somehow, few things seem more American to me than Russian roulette.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
1½ rolls
I'd be fucking panicking. I don't tolerate that level of risk.
When I get to the last 6-pack in from the Costco bundle, it's time for a Costco run.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
1½ rolls
I'd be fucking panicking. I don't tolerate that level of risk.
When I get to the last 6-pack in from the Costco bundle, it's time for a Costco run.
That's more to my risk tolerance.
Though I still order from Amazon or Peapod.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
it's a quarterly thing to evacuate the main shower drain.
I read that with the word "on" added about six tenths of the way, but I'm glad for you that's not what you wrote.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
Though I still order from Amazon
Your way of getting stuff from Amazon must be way simpler. If I'm not at home for the delivery (typically in a 3h window in the middle of the day, so typically I'm not), I have to figure out where they left it and pick it up there. Or retry the next day.
Compared to walking into the store that is literally across the street? Yeah, nah.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
Though I still order from Amazon
Your way of getting stuff from Amazon must be way simpler. If I'm not at home for the delivery (typically in a 3h window in the middle of the day, so typically I'm not), I have to figure out where they left it and pick it up there. Or retry the next day.
Compared to walking into the store that is literally across the street? Yeah, nah.
Lots of things just get dropped in front of our apartment door or sometimes just the lobby.
Also, since I have grown kids living here they have different schedules than my husband and I so someone is home most of the time.
Grocery stores are like 7 blocks away and walking with lots of groceries is a PITA.
We do have a bodega literally across the street but they only have that single ply thin crap. They are also open 24 hours so good for emergencies.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
They are also open 24 hours so good for emergencies.
Like when there is only 6 rolls left
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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
1½ rolls
I'd be fucking panicking. I don't tolerate that level of risk.
Yeah, that's about one chimichanga away from having to take an unexpected shower to stay sanitary.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
1½ rolls
I'd be fucking panicking. I don't tolerate that level of risk.
Yeah, that's about one chimichanga away from having to take an unexpected shower to stay sanitary.
I parsed that backwards a bit and thought "Oh , that would be a bad day if it was essentially showering on/from you..."
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@Tsaukpaetra A showerhead that deposits chimichangas?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Told a cashier at Target about this last night and she apparently hadn't been informed. Kept making it worse by naming all the other Necco products that are now extinct: Necco wafers, Dots, those pink peppermint lozenges, and the Skybar chocolate bar.
(I bought a whole box of chocolate Necco wafers a couple of months ago and a big bag of the lozenges, so I'm good for a while and hope some other company will pick up the slack soon, like when Hostess stopped making Twinkies.)
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
Kept making it worse by naming all the other Necco products that are now extinct: Necco wafers, Dots, those pink peppermint lozenges, and the Skybar chocolate bar.
You must be a hoot at parties.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
Kept making it worse by naming all the other Necco products that are now extinct: Necco wafers, Dots, those pink peppermint lozenges, and the Skybar chocolate bar.
You must be a hoot at parties.
I was thinking it was better to know rather than run around looking for them when they were no longer around. I had that with those Ideal peanut-butter bars.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
hope some other company will pick up the slack soon
They supply about 80% of the market. I'd imagine the companies that supply the other 20% will make a windfall this year if they can ramp up production in time.
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Somewhat disturbed that this story is at the top of the "Articles for you" on a new Chrome tab on my phone, after having eaten some leftover chicken tikka masala of uncertain age for lunch.
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@HardwareGeek I'm subscribed to that YouTuber!
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Somewhat disturbed that this story is at the top of the "Articles for you" on a new Chrome tab on my phone, after having eaten some leftover chicken tikka masala of uncertain age for lunch.
I one time ate some old perogies with pasta sauce. It tasted a little weird but I was hungry and didn't have much else.
Finished...then in a couple
weeksminutes had the first and only episode of projectile vomiting. While I made it to the bathroom....it looked like a crime scene.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
a couple weeks
Food poisoning is faster than that. Hours? Yes. Weeks? No.
While I made it to the bathroom....it looked like a crime scene.
You know it is bad when it forces you to redecorate and install a new carpet.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
Kept making it worse by naming all the other Necco products that are now extinct: Necco wafers, Dots, those pink peppermint lozenges, and the Skybar chocolate bar.
You must be a hoot at parties.
And on dates! I mean, were you hitting on the cashier or something?
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@HardwareGeek The only time I've ever had a negative reaction from eating bad food was when I ate some rice porridge that had a neon green, fuzzy coating. My stomach made some hitherto and never again heard noise that belongs in some troma alien movie, and a few hours later I vomited without warning.
Since then, I've gotten a lot pickier with what I eat though...
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
My stomach made some hitherto and never again heard noise that belongs in some troma alien movie, and a few hours later I vomited without warning.
That noise was your warning…
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The NSA didn't want you to know that
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Fiona Onasanya becomes first sitting MP to be jailed in almost 30 years
For "3 months." After lying continually about it.
Chris Huhne* who pled guilty at the start of his, got 8 months.
* similar offence of perjury regarding a speeding ticket, still a sitting MP at the time of arrest and charge, but stepped down at that point, so technically not sitting at the time of sentencing.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
perjury regarding a speeding ticket
How bad were these tickets? TFA you linked before didn't seem to say (or I missed it).
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
For "3 months."
The judge accepted her statement that it was "out of character" for her, and gave her the lightest possible sentence.
After lying continually about it.
And apparently not remorseful, because she intends to appeal.
sitting at the time of sentencing
And intending to remain so as long as possible, since she has no income other than the public purse.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
perjury regarding a speeding ticket
How bad were these tickets? TFA you linked before didn't seem to say (or I missed it).
41 in a 30 zone (I think that was mph, not km/h, but too to go back to TFA to check).
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
perjury regarding a speeding ticket
How bad were these tickets? TFA you linked before didn't seem to say (or I missed it).
She was going 41 in a 30 mph zone. (Surprised that England still uses mph, but that's England.)
Not too many jobs where you can still collect your salary while you're in jail.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
perjury regarding a speeding ticket
How bad were these tickets? TFA you linked before didn't seem to say (or I missed it).
The charge wasn't about the tickets as such, or the speed they were driving.
The cases were brought because they committed perjury/perverting the course of justice in lying about who was driving at the time.
In Huhne's case his wife attempted to take the fall, in Onasanya's case it was her brother.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
The judge accepted her statement that it was "out of character" for her, and gave her the lightest possible sentence.
She's an MP. Lying is a central part of her character.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
The charge wasn't about the tickets as such, or the speed they were driving.
The cases were brought because they committed perjury/perverting the course of justice in lying about who was driving at the time.
In Huhne's case his wife attempted to take the fall, in Onasanya's case it was her brother.
Yes, but it's funny that she got herself into prison for what at root was such a minor offense.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
perjury regarding a speeding ticket
How bad were these tickets? TFA you linked before didn't seem to say (or I missed it).
The charge wasn't about the tickets as such, or the speed they were driving.
The cases were brought because they committed perjury/perverting the course of justice in lying about who was driving at the time.
In Huhne's case his wife attempted to take the fall, in Onasanya's case it was her brother.
Right. But some tickets are worse than others and might "justify" that sort of lie. 41 in a 30 doesn't really strike me as one of those, though.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Right. But some tickets are worse than others and might "justify" that sort of lie. 41 in a 30 doesn't really strike me as one of those, though.
In Huhne's case I believe he was already near the points limit before his licence got taken off him which is why he and his wife did what they did - any conviction for speeding for him would have resulted in confiscation.
I can't seem to find the reason for Onasanya...
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
I can't seem to find the reason for Onasanya...
Found it. Idiocy - another attribute not in danger of extinction among our ruling classes:
However, he said the case was out of the ordinary because her crime was [...]possibly committed out of misplaced loyalty to her brother.
Her life as a new MP in 2017 was “extremely hectic and chaotic” and she had just been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when police began to pursue her.
After her brother falsely filled out her NIP, she made the “disastrous decision” to keep up the lie from November 2017, he said.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
Idiocy - another attribute not in danger of extinction among our ruling classes
Toby Faire, it's not exactly endangered in the non-ruling classes, either.
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Microsoft: We suck at making a rendering engine, so we gave up, and you should too
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During that time, numerous women reported seeing the individual performing the lewd act along several suburban streets. The man frequented one street in Windsor so frequently that police discovered his image had been captured by a Google Street View vehicle.