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  1. Aldarion

    Home buying thread

    Can we add another category? I'm sure there are parasites waiting to snatch up more real estate investments who hope it crashes. I'm sure there are people who thought real estate was some kind of god given guaranteed profit who don't want it to crash. Maybe theres a third category too...
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    Wheel of Time

    Alternatively, you could enjoy the books, beloved by millions, and skip what may turn out to be the absolute pinnacle of woke shit adaptations
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    Ancient Civilizations

    Hmm, hexagonal like the cells in beehives. This proves a race of intelligent beepeople once roamed the earth
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    The Marvels (2023)

    Every image I've seen of this is hilariously bad. Brie and Black Marvel always look so bored and a little ashamed. Muslim Marvel looks like shes a decked out gamer girl at cosplay who is just this moment starting to realize how cringe it all is. Can't imagine how hilarious their performances...
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    Ancient Civilizations

    Fair. I don't actually have a big bone to pick with the notion that these funny shaped rocks were shaped by people. Just with all the speculation that flows from that point.
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    Ancient Civilizations

    Thats a very good example of the kind of absolute horse shit I'm talking about. Its literally a funny shaped rock. And from that, they spin some whole just-so story about the civilization that made it. I'm on board with ancient civ but shit like this should be laughed out of the field not...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    My house was built my retards. My kitchen vent is connected to the master bathroom vent. When you fry in the kitchen the bathroom smells like oil. Thankfully it doesnt go the other way too. Its just about the only reason I'll someday agree to remodel the kitchen.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    yeah the more I thought about my comment the more I think that the reason restaurants get away with it is the industrial grade ventilation. The vent in my kitchen suuucks, and I've lived in enough different houses to think thats pretty common.
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    Deep fryers are a mistake unless you're a restaurant. Either you waste a shit load of oil or you fry in nasty, old, weird tasting oil. Restaurants can get away with reusing oil cause they are frying constantly. They serve you fries made in yesterdays oil. When you try this trick at home you end...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Agree completely. As I was sitting here typing out a response about how I can't understand that "retire to watch TV" mindset, it struck me that its really just the same thing we see play out on a smaller scale every weekend. Some sit around bored watching TV all weekend. For others the weekend...
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    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Right, exactly. What I'm saying is why is the new spin supposed to be more automatically plausible than the explanation people have believed for thousands of years? I mean the weight of evidence is equal for both explanations
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Ive got one in the opposite direction. It rustles my jimmies when we pick some great 80s or 90s movie to introduce to our kids, then we sit down and watch it, and its full of fucking foul language. I'm like I don't remember this! Apparently all that shit was edited out in the TV versions I saw...
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    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    I mean, people have been claiming demon encounters for millenia without proof. Then people have been claiming alien encounters for a few decades without proof. Why are aliens supposed to be obviously more plausible? Isnt "Alien" just the modernist skin people put on these same experiences?
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    FOH Shower Thoughts

    Since the invention of TV, every time we've watched a politician talk we've been watching a man wearing makeup. Think about that. In normal everyday life if you ran into a dude wearing makeup you'd know he was a fucking crazy person and never listen to anything he says. The TV hides the...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Seriously, fuck any and every business of any size that operates through ""quotes"" Fuck the 3-4 guys who will rush in here to assure me that in their very important industry its very important that they operate through quotes List the fucking price. If "it depends", make a price table. For...
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    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Its funny how common that error is. I've heard quite a few people say that. Its like a Mandela effect but for retarded people.
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    I feel like in 2023, if you complain that you've forgotten your password and cant get into something, the only response you should get from anyone is laughter. I mean, its 20 fucking 23 and you havent yet come up with some kind of system for avoiding this? Click the "password reset"? Use some...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Somewhat? By somewhat do you mean more or less than that laughable 1.9% estimate from the article? I do agree that inflation has slowed down and I do agree that building materials are doing well - in some cases I've seen actual price decreases. I say 1.9% is bullshit though. By a large margin.
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    Investing General Discussion

    I don't feel like doing that kind of homework this early in the morning on the weekend. We do have an entire thread devoted to people posting examples. Are you making the claim that yoy ex-shelter inflation is 1.9%?
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    Investing General Discussion

    Yeah, I guess I'm just saying this. The article seemed to make the claim that inflation is actually beaten, except for housing, which it claims is a different situation for various reasons. And the articles conclusion is that the Fed should stop raising rates as a result. This conclusion seems...
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    Investing General Discussion

    I can't get past this. This number is so far from reality I don't know what to believe from the article. Maybe theres some "official" source that matches this number. All I'm saying is, this number is fucking horse shit.
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    Investing General Discussion

    This is a good example of the lifestyle creep I bitch about from time to time. As a society our expectations for how a normal middle class person should expect to live have gone fucking bonkers during our lifetime. People usually bitch at me for political reasons when I bring it up, but...
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    Ancient Civilizations

    Not trying to start a fight, but I find this kind of "archaeology" exactly as convincing as tarot readings. I buy parts of it, e.g. the carbon dating. Its the speculation that "hey this random ass rock or log looks like X" that I find laughable. Its literally people looking at cloud...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    In the restaurants I worked in that served pizza, the dough was always made the night before. If we had to make another batch we were not allowed to use it til the next day. Aging appears to matter, probably to get that right stretchiness.
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    Wheel of Time

    No, its what I've alway said - the fact that they dont stick to the source material in casting is a preview of their failure to stick to the source material throughout. As soon as raceswapped casting is announced, you can know in advance its gonna be garbage.
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    What I meant by hand tight was tightened by hand manually with a wrench rather than fucking absurdly tight with a power tool. The bolt in question cannot be accessed with a long wrench. Its a star head round bolt screwed into the bottom of the steering column. Screwed in with some kind of...
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    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    This is a recurring rustle for me so I dunno if I've posted before. It rustles the fuck outa my jimmies when bolts that have no reason to be tightened down like the fist of an angry god, are tightened down like the fist of an angry god. Then it gets stripped because they've tightened this...
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    Gravy's Cooking Thread

    literally not one person in my household drinks milk or eats it on cereal and we still use up at least a half gallon a week. wtf man
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    The Flash (2023)

    I watched this movie from a different perspective than most comic book movies, because of all the info before it was released. This was a movie about "what if the worst person in the world, just an absolute insufferable cunt with no redeeming qualities, had superspeed & time travel powers?"...
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    Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2022)

    Absolutely. The Flash deserves all the hate it gets. But I've never been able to make it to the halfway point in either Shazam movie. These things are just so bad.
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    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Following up on this because as a longtime Project Bluebook fan I don't understand the comment. Everyone I know from all walks of life thought those ridiculous Mexican ETs were the most obvious fakes they'd ever seen. What was the master stroke you're referring to?
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    The problem is we are fighting against this mentality. people who don't understand that zipper merging is the only acceptable merge shouldnt be allowed to drive.
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Man, @BrutulTM picks some weird hills to die on. "how dare this guy complain about visible amounts of actual shit in his food, what a supertaster!"
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    Writers Guild Strike 2023

    Mahers a tool but he's 100% right about this. Its annoying how politicians - almost all of whome have never stared mortal danger in the face - constantly call suicide bombers "cowards". There are a whole lot of reasons to criticize terrorists and other suicide bombers. Cowardice is the single...
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    The Paranormal, UFO's, and Mysteries of the Unknown

    Youre right to wonder. Those kinds of numbers (claiming to show surprisingly high similarity between humans and bacteria or bananas) are calculated in a bullshit way that overstates the similarity. Those numbers are generally based on aligning all the genes that match, and estimating the...
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    The Fast Food Thread

    Shrimp nuggets? What do you estimate is the probability that they deveined (removed the tube full of actual shit) those shrimp before grinding them up into nuggets? I don't like to come across as racist but I'm gonna have to say it here - shrimp served in a non-white establishment are...
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    90s songs that were OK the first time, but gave you cancer after they were played nonstop for months

    The Beastie Boys are the shittiest and cringiest band to ever exist in any universe The Watcher himself recoils in horror and refuses to look in on our universe any more after witnessing one of their songs The only good thing about the 90s being over is that now the only reason anyone plays...
  38. Aldarion

    The Fast Food Thread

    There is no fate too cruel for someone who orders chicken nuggets and calls them boneless wings.
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    TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023)

    Like I said, my comment wasnt about Swift. I agree that just a rich daddy wouldnt be enough to get her where she is. I'm just saying, if someones rich daddy paid to get them started in life, that fact alone is always deserving of mockery no matter how admirable the person may otherwise turn...
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    TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023)

    Look, I've got no opinion on Swift herself, but this is ridiculous. Having a rich daddy who helps start your career is the white equivalent of being an affirmative action hire. Its always appropriate to criticize anyone who gets their start that way.