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Just be like me and obsessively check your online credit card statement multiple times a day because you never got over being kinda broke in your early 20’s.
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Record and record are homographs but not homonyms. Like homonyms they have different meanings.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:honestly, that contextually just seems like a way of saying the battle wasn't that interesting, that there weren't any unusual or noteworthy players or tactics involved on either side. as a result the specifics get brushed off as "the same old poo poo as every other battle." Obviously, the problem is we don’t know what happened in typical battles and we’d like to because we’re curious about them.
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Jan 10, 2020 01:31
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Some bars, food trucks sometimes, and other things without much infrastructure, though that’s becoming less and less common each year with things like square card readers and such.
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Jan 18, 2020 16:47
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FreudianSlippers posted:Actual content: I was visiting relatives this last weekend and my nephew was intensely confused by the idea that, at great-grandma’s house, you just had to watch whichever episode was on television right at that moment because she has cable not app-based tv. “But I don’t want to watch this episode of Paw Patrol!” “Well, that’s what’s on.” “Can we skip this commercial?” “Nope, sorry buddy.”
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Jan 21, 2020 23:55
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shame on an IGA posted:Early 00s graduate, I fought my parents on the class ring because it was obviously a huge waste of money even 20 years ago but they did it anyway. Same, graduated very early 2000’s. My mom and dad INSISTED I’d care about it to the point of me giving up and just picking one so they’d leave me alone. I’ve never worn it, because it’s a huge dumb ring celebrating high school and I was immediately in college, where caring about what you did in high school was super dumb.
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Feb 2, 2020 22:33
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Is silence_kit one of the like 4 resident chuds that floats around here looking for gotchas or al I misremembering?
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Feb 22, 2020 07:43
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Leperflesh posted:"Is this signature legit" comes up in court, such as in forgery cases, when people are passing bad checks (no your honor my checkbook was stolen I didn't write those), that sort of thing. Language evolves who cares. But yeah chip and sign is idiotic when chip and
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Feb 26, 2020 22:15
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Nah, ‘worse’ is a subjective opinion based on your inability to change. Changes don’t proliferate if they’re worse at getting across meaning. Hopefully weird Oxford Dictionary Purists will become a thing of the past in some future thread.
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Feb 26, 2020 22:20
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Leperflesh posted:I'm delighted that language evolves, and as a technical writer, I'm constantly confronted with the mutated offspring of English's promiscuous past and present. Some changes are great, and some suck. On balance it's better for everyone that language changes to keep up with the changes in our world and our society. Nah.
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Feb 26, 2020 23:18
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Well you’re the expert.
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Mar 6, 2020 16:16
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I got a set of pilot’s wings once in like 1988 because I was flying for my first time ever, and I was like 4 years old.
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Apr 15, 2020 21:09
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Flying sucks for a thousand annoying reasons. This is generally glossed over in shows about flying.
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Apr 19, 2020 05:14
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Milo and POTUS posted:Orange County is insanely racist tbcf This doesn’t reduce the absolutely apocalyptic temperature of that take.
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May 6, 2020 04:37
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Busy signals are still a thing, especially if you’re calling for take out at a busy local restaurant in COVID times.
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Jul 5, 2020 21:11
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Scudworth posted:Do people under 60 read obituaries, you need a newspaper for that, or to look it up specifically on your local news... website? I don't even know. Your local library likely has the biggest newspaper(s) digitized and searchable online. If you’re bad at online you can call/email and get librarians to look them up. When I do telephone reference shifts I look up about 5 obits a week.
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Jul 10, 2020 14:42
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Lol the house we just moved into has a phone jack and a coaxial cable jack in every. loving. room. If you own the home it’s pretty baby simple to cut the drywall, tuck the wires, and do a replacement drywall patch.
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Jul 24, 2020 22:45
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Ynglaur posted:Please terminate them with safety caps. Power surges are a thing. Yes please do that too. It’s still quite easy and safety caps are cheap.
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Jul 25, 2020 09:35
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Cemetry Gator posted:It makes me sad. I'm a sedan man, but the American auto makers are abandoning that market. Same. Guess it’s Civics forever.
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Sep 16, 2020 17:56
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I think you'll find that Goofus and Gallant were also in Boy's Life, which every Boy Scout got. So what I'm saying is that all the coolest kids know about them.
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Nov 19, 2020 02:13
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Cemetry Gator posted:I read the article and it feels like typical science journalism, in which the worst outcome is the truest because somebody somewhere wondered if it might be true. Yep. I use a gps for the first 2-3 times I go to a new place and then just don’t anymore. It’s literally the same as a map read by a passenger.
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Dec 29, 2020 02:31
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Buttchocks posted:My grandmother used to make the most amazing fruitcake that required letting the fruit sit in a jar for a month beforehand. Sadly she lost the recipe. Or she lied just got tired of making it. Grandmothers can be like that. Yo it’s called friendship fruitcake and it’s delicious. Here’s an example recipe. https://www.southyourmouth.com/2014/01/friendship-fruit-cake-plus-starter.html?m=1 The US doesn’t have fruitcake - the Midwest and northeast have terrible food and for some reason that’s the culture we constantly export to the world.
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Jan 18, 2021 07:29
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Shrecknet posted:how tf do you lose a wired remote You unplugged them.
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Feb 21, 2021 02:28
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https://twitter.com/mikexnichols/status/1370877830150692869?s=21
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Mar 14, 2021 23:48
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Alhazred posted:When writing down stuff became a thing Socrates was worried that people would be incapable of remembering stuff. He wasn't even wrong, the building of mind palaces and the extreme feats of memory people at that time could achieve eventually faded away and stopped being a thing. It's just that it's also not that big a deal because we had things written down so we didn't need to dedicate that mental space to memory. Things shift and change that makes them different, not worse.
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Mar 17, 2021 20:17
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Alhazred posted:Honestly greek philosophers had the dumbest deaths. The founders of Western Civilization. Brightest minds of the past 4000 years.
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Mar 18, 2021 19:07
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They aren’t even discs!
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Mar 19, 2021 18:05
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Cobalt-60 posted:I can't stand TV anymore. SO many ads, and they're all TERRIBLE. How many drat prescription meds ARE there? Only Boomers and people who are weirdly into sports watch broadcast television anymore so the ads are all focused on the most gullible and least healthy segments of our population.
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Mar 25, 2021 02:38
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Oh man I remember those. Every sales person in the place I worked in the mid 2010’s had that bullshit as part of their email signature when I was doing technical sales support stuff and it was the dumbest poo poo in the worst.
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Mar 25, 2021 23:58
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GokuGoesSSJ3 posted:Weirdly into sports like... watching the postseason and biggest games of various leagues, which are what is shown on broadcast tv? It's always so weird when goons show up to try to flex on people enjoying sports. No, I admit I’m not a sports guy, nor is ‘some people are weird about a hobby’ a flex in that hobby. but I’m basing it on a friend who wouldn’t get a streaming service for sports because it was missing some random games that didn’t matter to the season or something. I just thought it was the obsessive superfan choice, the same way getting an anime only steaming thing is the weeb Superfan’s choice.
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Mar 26, 2021 06:02
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Slimy Hog posted:Oh no! How dare someone enjoy something in a way that you don't! That’s not at all what I’m saying, weirdly offended dude.
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Mar 27, 2021 02:02
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Krispy Wafer posted:I had to use a Smartboard and yeah they kind of suck. It’s not that they’re bad; they have some nice features. But those don’t outweigh the complexity and cost. If they go on the fritz, it’s a huge brick taking up prime instruction space in your classroom. I wonder when they'll just have schools adopt a subscription model with x licenses that stay updated and can be accessed via some student login portal. I'm going back for a Master's and all my textbooks are digital now.
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Mar 29, 2021 15:42
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Imagined posted:I graduated in 1998. I told my parents multiple times not to buy me a class ring, that I wouldn't wear it, didn't want it, didn't care about it, didn't want to remember high school, etc. They thought I would regret it or change my mind someday, and bought it anyway. 23 years later I can say that I was right, and I have no idea where it even is. I cannot even imagine a bitch so basic they would wear a high school class ring after graduation. In my experience the only people who are proud of what they did in high school or remember the actual school experience fondly are the people who peaked in high school. For everyone else, high school was at best an ambivalent experience and at worst the nadir of their adult lives from which everything afterward represented an improvement. Same, except I'm like 5 years younger than you. My mother was insistent on it, to the point where I was getting in trouble for not selecting which extracurriculars I wanted on it.
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Mar 30, 2021 19:36
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DeadlyMuffin posted:Holy poo poo the cop was a pedophile? The guy who did the cops on the beat threads? It was always weird to me how much goons fawned over stories like ‘then we beat this guy up for saying he was innocent’ but in old guy language.
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May 10, 2021 23:03
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BattyKiara posted:People jumping from windows and landing in blankets help by firemen. Was that ever a thing? Or just a made up cartoon thing? It was real but sucked. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_net
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May 12, 2021 18:38
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Scudworth posted:How did that work? I didn't understand the concept on TV because it seemed like the student doing it was somehow not attending classes. I wasn’t a hall monitor but I was an ‘assistant’ which meant for one period out of the day I sat in the principle’s office and ran errands for the assistant principle like picking up attendance forms and such. Also I got to sit and read a book for 80% of the period unmolested. You get to do that if you place out of all the math at your grade level in junior high.
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May 13, 2021 03:12
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Cemetry Gator posted:I think it's pretty broad to say young people aren't watching TV and Movies anymore - I almost suspect what is happening is that they're not using it for background noise anymore. Yeah I’d love to have seen a comparison between millennials at that age and zoomers now.
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May 15, 2021 01:11
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lol just lol if you ever attended a single pep rally.
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May 15, 2021 06:04
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Mister Kingdom posted:We had mandatory pep rallies in my high school. At least it got us out class for 30 minutes. Did they take attendance? I can’t even imagine that. My school had like 3000 kids.
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AmbassadorofSodomy posted:B: Wait in the bathroom for about 10 minutes. Once the crowds in the halls have died down just walk to the nearest exit. I skipped so much class like this. Then I’d just walk by a teacher’s class and mark myself present on the attendance sheet of whatever class I was supposed to be in (they were hanging on the door for pickup) with a pen and leave for a couple hours.
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