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    NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

    I'll tell you what, I'm excited to watch Jarryd Hayne, hopefully their defense can actually force some punts every once in awhile. How Carlos Hyde succeeds Frank Gore will also be a big indicator of if this franchise has any hope of actually rebuilding in the near future. I don't have any...
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    Fantasy Football: 2015 Advice Thread

    This late in the game, hold pat, check out what happens week 1 and look for waiver wire gold. You have some droppable players but this close to the start of the season you might as well wait out week 1 results before you try to get cute.
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    Adventures with Lyrical: Buying a Business (REPOST)

    You do realize that outside of MAYBE retail, pretty much every business is slow during those months? Hell, even retail struggles in January. People just flat out don't have much disposable income after X-Mas...
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    Parent Thread

    Bolded part is all that matters. Good luck on the solo! (Ha! see what I did there?)
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    Fantasy Football: 2015 Advice Thread

    Obviously you can't help what auto-draft lands you, but seems like an opportunity to say another thing I don't believe in is carrying two QBs. There is always a QB available on the waiver-wire that can fill in for your QB's bye week who will score comparably well to whichever QB you leave...
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    Parent Thread

    We got the NextFit as well now that we've outgrown the infant seat. The NextFit can technically be used with a newborn, but it is extremely bulky and you can't pop it in-and-out of the car to carry it around. Other than switching it from car-to-car, once you put the NextFit into the car it stays...
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    Parent Thread

    Breast milk/formula poops are pretty messy, but what we would do is just take the whole diaper and rinse it off in the bath tub. It would pretty much rinse right off the diaper, took maybe 30 seconds. Once you get to solid-food poop it is even easier because you get these little disposable...
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    Parent Thread

    We also went with the Chico KeyFit-30. Great carseat, pretty much one of the highest safety-rated car seats you can get in the "non-retarded dollar amount" pricing range. My daughter just turned 1 and we just moved up from the infant car seat to the toddler-seat or whatever. Technically she...
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    Fantasy Football: 2015 Advice Thread

    My league has a transaction fee for add/drops so it cost me a little extra money to not draft a D/ST or Kicker (since I'll have to pick them up before week 1). Some years if I think I have some good sleepers targeted I will forgo drafting a K and/or D/ST, this year there wasn't anything...
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    Fantasy Football: 2015 Advice Thread

    I've been streaming D/ST for years now and I always end up outscoring my opponents at that position at the end of the year. If my draft is early enough in the pre-season I won't even draft a D/ST and instead look for a homerun-potential sleeper who might catch fire during the pre-season. Then...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    So whenever presents are involved I rip that shit open like a man. My wife on the other-hand deconstructs the wrapping job step-by-step, saves any sort of present-bag, and neatly folds up any decorative tissue paper for what she claims is reuse. Why she is bothering to save that shit for reuse...
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    Smartphones

    Full review of the Moto X Pure Addition.Moto X Pure Edition review: the third time really is the charm TL;DR
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    MLB 2015 Season

    What did he do before the All-Star break?
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    Fantasy Football: 2015 Advice Thread

    Yeah, trade analysis/veto is tough. On one hand you don't want to handicap those who are good negotiators and/or deny someone who looks like they are getting trade-raped but "have a plan." On the other hand you want to keep things fair and prevent collusion. There was one league I played in...
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    Adventures with Corndog: Corndog's Fish Store

    Yeah, digging through my current merchant processor contract I would be in violation. Question I have to ask myself is, how'd they ever find out?
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    It's the exact opposite of convection. It uses radiant heat to cook your food, which means less air/gas going around your food which leads to less drying out. *edit: More infos on radiant heat:GrillJunkie Gas Grill Reviews: Char-Broil TRU Infrared
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    Adventures with Corndog: Corndog's Fish Store

    Square is way too expensive for us on the processing fees for normal use, but I'll look into seeing if it is possible to have an account set-up for potential emergency use. Might be against our current merchant-processor agreement as well. Regardless, thanks for the heads up on that.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Yes.Here is an Amazon linkto the one I bought. It is actually a very versatile little cooker. Infrared roasting inside, has a top you can grill on (like burgers and dogs), and you can even supposedly do some smoking in it, although I've never tried straight up smoking things and have only...
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    NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

    You mean the two steps and a fall, none of which are "football" moves?
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    NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

    Really cause all I see in that sequence you posted is pretty clear evidence that the ground caused him to lose control of the ball, so not a catch.
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    Adventures with Corndog: Corndog's Fish Store

    Ha! I had just the opposite problem. We lost internet (so no taking credit cards) and phones, but we had power so we stayed open. Turns out many of the restaraunts around us couldn't comprehend not being able to take credit-cards and saw the lights flicker so they decided to shut down. We did...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    My understanding if you want to sous-vide turkey/chicken, the white meat parts and the dark meat parts need to cook for different times. That is why sous-viding a whole bird turns out like crap. Sounds like a_skeleton_03 has that covered by planning on deconstructing the turkey first. I've...
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    NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

    Sounds like he is on the way to Seattle to reunite with Marshawn Lynch (who remain close friends).
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    I did this once. I didn't burn anything or anyone but at some point between getting the turkey out of the fryer (which was in the middle of the back yard) and into the kitchen I somehow misplaced it. I had to sneak into the house and secretly enlist the help of my friends to find the turkey...
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    Home buying thread

    Watch BoA on the fees with the refi. Way too many $0 fee options out there to pay the ridiculous amounts they tried to pack into my refi.
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    Fantasy Football: 2015 Advice Thread

    Anyone got the low-down on what is up with Zach Ertz? ESPN has him listed as questionable but no further details... Also my draft was Saturday. 10 teams, PPR, power was out for the entire draft so that made things a little interesting. Cobb went down literally minutes after I had drafted him.
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    Fantasy Football: 2015 Advice Thread

    If I had a top-3 pick (which thankfully I didn't) I'm going Beastmode all the way. I think he is the only RB in the top-5 who has little potential downside and with an early pick I'm all about mitigating risk.
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    Parent Thread

    I find those busy days to actually be worse for sleeping. You'd think they'd be worn down but... well every baby is different but mine does worse with sleeping if overtired. Routines are big around here, helps a lot that is for sure.
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    Fantasy Football: 2015 Advice Thread

    I've always used the ESPN Offline Draft Tool with a computer hooked to a bigscreen TV. Has worked very well for our league. Helps that our league uses ESPN so you can just import the results.
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    Parent Thread

    I don't think you are being an asshole. Even if you are a "stay at home parent" you need some rest to be a good parent. I can attest that spending all day with a baby/toddler is actually pretty exhausting. I do know that when I work my typical 9-5 when I get home the first thing I want to do is...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    So I have this deck that I planned on tearing down and replacing next year (this year I'm building a shed). The deck was shoddily built, there are deck boards that are rotting out and I don't like the shape of it. Oh, and for whatever reason the asshat who owned the house before me decided to...
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    Parent Thread

    We are less than a week away from our daughters first birthday, today she started taking multiple steps on her own (most was 6). I'm not too worried about her starting to walk as she already crawls around at light-speed and is into everything, but it is more a sign of just how quickly she is...
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    NFL 2015-2016 Season Thread

    Latest I'm aware of:
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    The Beer Thread

    You'd be referring to the Reinheitsgebot which is no longer applicable today, but is somewhat of the bases for the Vorl?ufiges Biergesetz (Provisional Beer Law) in which current German brewers operate under. (*edit: I only bring it up because the original question referred to I'm assuming...
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    The "Shit I just bought" thread

    I was skeptical of the Dyson as well but my wife really wanted one so I bought it. I tested it by vacuuming my house first with some cheapo vacuum, then some ancient Kirby or something that was like $1000 50 years ago that is supposed to be a badass vacuum but weighs nearly as much as I do, then...
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    The Beer Thread

    The "law" requires all beers to be made from "barley, hops, water, and yeast" (it also allows for wheat iirc). Pretty much every beer ever is made from barley, hops, water, and yeast. The only things you don't get are adjuncts like fruit, peppers, chocolate, coffee, etc. Even then you can make...
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    Fantasy Football: 2015 Advice Thread

    I'm pretty high on Carlos Hyde, not as a RB1 but as a decent RB2 option, but besides him I'm staying away from any 49ers player for fantasy. Kaepernick's throwing performance last season + 1/2 of their O-line leaving town + a bunch of no-name coaches taking over = way too much fantasy risk for me.
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    Blunt Talk starring Patrick Stewart on Starz

    fify. Others this basically sums up why you should be watching this. I thought the first two episodes were awesome. Yes
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    MLB 2015 Season

    He is having a pretty phenomenal year actually. I am slightly torn on the idea of using him as a pinch hitter more often though. On one hand it basically gives the Giants an extra bench slot, which can be huge in NL ball, but he bats right... leaving his pitching arm exposed to a high-and-tight...
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    Avengers: Age of Ultron

    No, I understand that. I just don't understand what happens in Age Of Ultron to make him get off his ass. Best I can figure is he only learned Loki lost the staff/gem because of the AoU events, but that is the closest I can figure to a connection between the events in the movie and Thanos...