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I agree that BMI can sometimes be out to lunch for people who are truly "built", with an abnormal amount of muscle. The vast, vast majority of people taking issue with BMI don't fall in to that category, though.

He's probably thinking "why do dey hef to be dudes in Edmonton? There no hot women skaters there?"

So hilariously enough, the second watch quit working entirely over the weekend. Right when I got it back from the GF I thought that the automatic winding mechanism seemed off. You could hear and feel it a lot more than with the previous one. I didn't think much of it at the time, but considering...

Dunno if you say the edit: Looks like you should be okay.

Ah, thanks for the clarification. I had just assumed that all watches were accurate to within a second or two a day these days, or at least should be. Guess not. Yeah, her mom bought me some stupid thing that when I don't wear the watch I can put it in, and it spins it around to keep the time...

While I think that quote is kind of funny, it's likely that he wasn't implying they had CCTV's watching the shower itself. What he probably meant was that they had CCTV footage of someone leaving their room for the day, while the shower was on. It's not unusual, as far as I know, for hotels to...

heh, I feel bad for her, because she's on a very tight budget and despite me repeatedly telling her to not get me anything for Christmas she really wanted to get me something, so I'm kind of left trying to be happy about this mediocre watch that doesn't keep time worth a shit so as not to offend...

I would have agreed with you a day ago, but then the sister of a friend of mine who died in an avalanche just before Christmas posted the one for her dead bro, and that fucking algorithm managed to crank out an amazingly poignant, heart wrenching video for him. Shit turned me all weepy.

It really depends. In areas where there's a lot of starting and stopping (so intersections, where most accidents happen in the first place) packed snow eventually just gets polished in to sheer ice anyways. Especially if there's lots of truck traffic. The solution, at least in Alberta, is to...

Up here the cops won't show up unless there is personal injury or significant property damage (ie: one or both vehicles cannot be driven away from the scene). You do need to file a police report yourself if the repairs to your vehicle are over $2,000, as body shops aren't supposed to repair your...

Just wondering what the general consensus on Fossil watches is. My girlfriend for whatever reason decided that I'd like a watch for Christmas (I haven't worn a watch in a decade), and bought me a Fossil. I don't recall the exact model number. It's one of the ones that is powered by movement. The...

Transformers go boom and make some nice sparkles when they explode, I would assume. What's more likely, a "dry run" for a terrorist attack (thereby tipping off authorities to the plot, how many "dry runs" of 9/11 did Osama do again?), or some kids fucking around with guns? Shit, sounds like...

Jimmies rustled at work again. We fired an idiot a month back because he completely botched a pipe installation and it caused a massive flood that will likely cost us 100k (or rather, 10k for our deductible and god knows how much in higher premiums down the road). It was Uponor/Wirsbo pex, which...

I dunno, we'll see how things actually turn out. I'm fairly pessimistic as well, but it seems like the lead up to every Olympics is like this, with tons of stories of incomplete venues, corruption, lack of crowds etc but then when they actually happen, things go fairly well. There was tons of...

It did happen. Five years ago.

Send some snow to the rockies please. Going cat skiing in Revelstoke next weekend (15-17), and it's hardly snowed the past 3 weeks and doesn't look like there's much in the forecast. I don't want to pay $400 a day to ski moguls for fuck's sake.

It's not unique to actors or celebrities either. People don't speak ill of the dead, and generally make them out to be far better people than they actually were. Like there was that dude in the "how not to get your ass shot by cops thread" that rushed a cop with a knife and was shot to death...

Yeah, I'm not a movie guy at all, but Hoffman was definitely one of the most celebrated actors of the past decade or two. It seemed to really take off with Capote.

In my experience, people who buy and drive Subaru's become damn near cultists for the brand, so be aware of that. It's fucking bizarre. They're pretty good cars though, as far as I know. If you like the styling, I guess. Hit and miss for me.

Dealing with this right now, on a Staybridge hotel. Both the franchise documents and the mechanical drawings specify a bunch of American Standard plumbing fixtures that don't fucking exist, probably because the documents haven't been updated in 20 years. But because it's a franchised hotel...

Yup, his email inbox has hundreds of items in it, not organized worth a shit.

What the fuck? Did you forget how many times they had to go after Berlusconi, and how many times he managed to slither out of previous convictions for blatant, blatant corruption? Berlusconi is a perfect example of how fucked Italy's justice system is, not an example of how effective it is...

Shit, I thought we overpaid. Then again, we'll see how he performs in the long run. His rebound control was fucking horrific that night, there's that one sequence where he has to go back and forth across his crease to make 3 saves in a row, because he booted out pucks right to shooters.

Everything I've ever read on Atlanta (and really, most large, suburban American cities that developed after the advent of the car) leads me to believe that there were many, many terrible decisions made in the decades after WW2 that resulted in them being massive, spread out, balkanized cities...

Yeah, I wasn't really agreeing or disagreeing with the comparison between the two movies. Truth be told, I haven't seen Tron since I was probably 4 or 5 years old, I don't really remember it at all. I thought the new one was a 5 or 6 out of 10, all things considered. It was entertaining enough...

The new Tron was certainly visually impressive. But the plot was meh, and the male lead was fucking awful IMO. The soundtrack was of course amazing.

How does a home have heat and hot water but no electricity? You need power to run furnaces, pumps, boilers and shit.

Nothing criminal, alas. He did have a ton of shit from his previous employer. I am now in possession of their entire estimating system, which was just a bunch of Excel spreadsheets. And a bunch of other shit. Probably not of much use to us, we estimate quite differently, but it might be...

Pretty much this. Women's concepts about physical exertion are completely and totally different than men's. They don't push themselves nearly as much as men do. When I go to the gym (fine, I haven't been in years), the majority of the women on cardio equipment aren't even sweating while the...

So, how about that Scrivens? That game was fucking ridiculous last night.

Often times, smaller companies are exempted from those types of requirements, because they're far less able to absorb losing a key staff member than a larger company.

The eyes are what jump out at me. Something really off with them.

I don't think so. People were generally pretty good about not being dicks in this particular thread in the past. And I was mostly joking about the "progression" from this one to that one. The reality is that it's all pretty much the same shit being discussed, it just so happened the...

It's the natural progression of this community. Now instead of talking about girls who broke our hearts here, we're all over in the marriage and the power of divorce thread talking about how a women took all of our shit. Personally I look forward to the "Nurses Who Seductively Changed My...

Bro, do you even winter? Salt doesn't do sweet fuck all in the Real North. Then again, we generally don't have the icing problems either, because it's so goddamn cold the snow doesn't have a chance to melt and turn in to ice. Although I'm not sure hard packed snow is much better.

Baby Einstein DVDs: Good for infant development? - Mayo Clinic They're not necessarily bad, but they're certainly not any better than your kid watching anything else on TV.

I'm sure it'll work fine in the long run, tankless heaters are much better suited to heating usage than tank-style ones for a few reasons. But as a mechanical contractor, IMO it's just not good practice. That's what boilers are for.

Plenums in general are very, very touchy on what you can put in them. It's especially a pain in the ass in commercial projects with dropped T-bar ceilings, because often times the entire ceiling space is considered a return air plenum, and the plumbers/electricians can't put a damn thing in...

I agree with you and the other couple of people around here, and I'd imagine it works no differently here in Soviet Canuckistan. Like I said, he threatened to call the cops a second time in his email, but I'm not worried about that. The cops would tell him it's not a criminal matter, but a civil...