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@da-doctah I see that news channel subscribes to the Dick van Dyke school of British accents.
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavour by remembering houw superiour it makes me coumpared tou you Yanks
It doesn't work if you keep dropping your
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
It doesn't work if you keep dropping yo
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s.But taking them out ouf yours just makes you sound even moure American
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
It doesn't work if you keep dropping yo
uru
s.But taking them out ouf yours just makes you sound even moure American
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
: "Barkeep! I think there's been a mistake... You see, when I asked for a Moscow Mule..."
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
"When I was a little girl I used to always go to my mom and say, 'my bones hurt," said Myers.
Oof owie ouch
That's not the half of it; I looked up Ehlers-Danlos syndromes - plural, as there are different forms and causations - and it sounds like it is horrible, painful, and often life-threatening. I am pretty sure I have heard of it before, but I never looked it up in the past. That poor woman.
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Coin tosses are racist.
In his tweet [complaining that he'd lost the coin toss, and called it dishonorable], Davis added the hashtag “BlackHistoryMonth2018”, suggesting racial bias was involved.
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“@TeamUSA dishonorably tossed a coin to decide its 2018 flag bearer. No problem. I can wait until 2022. #BlackHistoryMonth2018 #PyeongChang2018.”
There was a tie. Not sure what he wanted them to do.
(Well, that's a lie; I know what he wanted them to do but it would have been racist.)
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@heterodox
Choosing the person with the bigger Pen 15 is racist?
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Think I still have a copy of winamp on a 3.5 floppy somewhere.
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Victims are then advised to call either 911 emergency services or their financial institution to report the incident and protect their account.
When the victim hangs up and attempts to contact one of the aforementioned institutions, the fraudster stays on the line and redirects them to a cohort, who impersonates a 911 call taker or bank employeeDo phones even work that way? It's been a while since I used a land-line but as I recall, hanging up was hanging up, whether or not the other person stayed on the line.
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@dragoon I always used to use that thing, skinned into a tiny bar on the top of my screen that no one but me could click the buttons on...
Good times.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Do phones even work that way? It's been a while since I used a land-line but as I recall, hanging up was hanging up, whether or not the other person stayed on the line.
Basic POTS landlines definitely do work that way. I recall in the early 90s hearing about people using this as a harrassment tactic. Call someone, they hang up, you don't hang up, they pick up again and you're still on the line. Clearing it involved going to the neighbors' place and using their phone to call the phone company and have them forcibly disconnect the line.
It wouldn't surprise me to learn that the phone companies never fixed that particular exploit.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
It wouldn't surprise me to learn that the phone companies never fixed that particular exploit.
I quickly Googled for it; apparently it's called "call clearing by the called terminal":
TL;DR: It depends on the Telecom operator's phone exchange settings, and some actually used it as a "feature" that you can hang up and pick up the phone in the next room if you were quick about it (remember: it's the calling party who foots the bill anyway).
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@boner said in In other news today...:
what was meant to be a life-changing journey.
Pretty sure even at only 2 days it was still life changing.
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@boner said in In other news today...:
A Colorado couple watched their life savings go down with their sunken sailboat just two days into what was meant to be a life-changing journey.
That definitely sounds life-changing!
Filed under: Not all change is good
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@boner It's kind of sad that their life savings, plus selling everything they had, including their car, was only enough to spend $10k on a boat, plus whatever they spent for supplies for their journey.
Their gofundme to get the boat up is funded to 13k out of $10k, though, so it sounds like they're on their way to a fresh start.
edit: they were young and stupid. What the hell kind of person decides to sell everything and go sail the world, when their entire life savings is a measly ten or fifteen grand? That's just ridiculous. According to the article, they only had $90 to their names; what were they expecting to happen when they needed to buy more supplies?
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
what were they expecting to happen when they needed to buy more supplies?
Start a GoFundMe, of course
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@anotherusername
I'm tempted to believe that the "coast guard" source that the news publication talked to is a ringer in on the scam with these two.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
What the hell kind of person decides to sell everything and go sail the world, when their entire life savings is a measly ten or fifteen grand? That's just ridiculous. According to the article, they only had $90 to their names; what were they expecting to happen when they needed to buy more supplies?
Came here to post this:
But I think it deserves to be a response to your post.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Do phones even work that way?
Yes, for a long time. That’s a well established phone scamming technique.
It's been a while since I used a land-line but as I recall, hanging up was hanging up, whether or not the other person stayed on the line.
Nope.
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@greybeard said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Do phones even work that way?
Yes, for a long time. That’s a well established phone scamming technique.
It's been a while since I used a land-line but as I recall, hanging up was hanging up, whether or not the other person stayed on the line.
Nope.
All the more reason for me to learn the trunk ready tone I guess...
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Silke Schoenfleisch-Backofen
Back off! Don't mess with her.
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@greybeard said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Do phones even work that way?
Yes, for a long time. That’s a well established phone scamming technique.
It's been a while since I used a land-line but as I recall, hanging up was hanging up, whether or not the other person stayed on the line.
Nope.
All the more reason for me to learn the trunk ready tone I guess...
That's the thing: as soon as they hear the called party hang up they start sending their own ready tone which could be indistinguishable from the real thing, then when the expected number was dialed they send a fake dialing tone before letting someone else on the calling side act as a support technician.
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@boner said in In other news today...:
Hmmmm, I wonder if it's anywhere near as good as Google Perspective? (which by our own testing, is pretty
hit and missshit)Spoiler
I doubt it
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No comment on whether it was blue or white.
Also, sympathies to the couple who are now looking for their wedding dress.
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I have to agree, my crystal ball said the same thing last month.
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@dragoon said in In other news today...:
I have to agree, my crystal ball said the same thing last month.
I prefer to listen to my Magic 8 ball
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@jbert New business model: give the customer a sheet in a plastic bag and sell the dress on eBay.
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@greybeard said in In other news today...:
@jbert New business model: give the customer a sheet in a plastic bag and sell the dress on eBay.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@greybeard said in In other news today...:
@jbert New business model: give the customer a sheet in a plastic bag and sell the dress on eBay.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
Good for her!
Now what I want to know is how many people who were coming to buy weed picked up some cookies instead?
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
Now what I want to know is how many people who were coming to buy weed picked up some cookies instead?
None.
All the customers left the cannabis shop with weed, and came back later to buy a bunch of cookies
FileUnder: Munchies
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Do phones even work that way? It's been a while since I used a land-line but as I recall, hanging up was hanging up, whether or not the other person stayed on the line.
They used to, with "party lines," especially back when manual operators were normative. A whole street of houses would share the same line, so when one person called another, the operator would ring the line, which jangled at all the houses. Someone (or sometimes multiple people) would pick up, the operator would ask for the intended recipient, and everyone else would (or were supposed to) hang up, and then the operator would connect the initiator and the recipient. Sometimes nosy people would stay on in order to pick up some tidbits of gossip (and sometimes that was the phone operator), but that was a risk of that setup.
I am just a little surprised that that sort of setup hasn't been updated since then, but I've occasionally experienced hanging up and then trying to call someone else immediately, but the first person was still on the line, with older phones where the system hasn't been updated in decades.
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
All the customers left the cannabis shop with weed, and came back later to buy a bunch of cookies
Some of them might have left with (special) cookies, and the more forward-thinking ones may have bought (Girl Scout) cookies before leaving the first time.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Greybeard said in In other news today...:
@JBert New business model: give the customer a sheet in a plastic bag and sell the dress on eBay.
<> That's trash, not garbage. Garbage is organic waste. Trash is non-organic waste. </>
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Greybeard said in In other news today...:
@JBert New business model: give the customer a sheet in a plastic bag and sell the dress on eBay.
<> That's trash, not garbage. Garbage is organic waste. Trash is non-organic waste. </>
I reject your faux pendantry.
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The developer had the wrong tactic, he should of just said that painting it white was his artwork. Call it "courage".
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