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  1. Eomer

    Yesterday was my dog's 4th birthday.

    I agree that they can be misleading, but when one single breed is consistently responsible for 30-40% of all dog related fatalities, insurance companies are going to make note of that shit. Whether or not that's fair or right. Fatal dog attacks in the United States - Wikipedia, the free...
  2. Eomer

    Yesterday was my dog's 4th birthday.

    Unfortunately, the stats don't lie. And that's all insurance companies care about. If you look up deaths caused by dogs, pitbulls are way the fuck up there, along with a few other breeds that wouldn't surprise anyone (Husky, rotties, german sheps). Given how rare they are but how high up they...
  3. Eomer

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I disagree. If there's a big disparity in wealth/assets between the couple getting married, having a pre-nup in place can avoid a lot of really ugly litigation should the marriage ever go to shit. No marriage is 100% guaranteed to work, it's a good idea to contemplate things not working out...
  4. Eomer

    Singles / Dating Websites

    Go on...
  5. Eomer

    Investing

    Definitely read the first. It'll take you a max of 4-6 hours I would think, it's very short and concise and will clearly explain why trying to beat the market is most likely going to result in you getting beaten by it. You aren't Warren Buffet, don't try to be.
  6. Eomer

    Skiing/Snowboarding Thread

    Man killed in B.C. avalanche remembered as free spirit, passionate snowboarder | Globalnews.ca Shane was a good friend of mine. I had only known him for the past 3 years, but in that time I'd done numerous road trips in the summer and winter to go skiing and biking. He was an all around...
  7. Eomer

    Pittsburgh, PA

    You're telling this to a guy from Midwestville, USA. Every business should be surrounded by a sea of parking lots, man. Anything less is poor urban design.
  8. Eomer

    Movies you'd like to see remakes of?

    whoops, got that mixed up with Tommyknockers!
  9. Eomer

    Movies you'd like to see remakes of?

    What, you didn't like Balki Bartokomous as the crazy guy?
  10. Eomer

    Ever work at a position where you do absolutely nothing?

    I don't really want to know where he's going, I just glance at the history and give him shit. Why he can't just go to redtube and be careful about what he clicks on, I have no idea.
  11. Eomer

    Wizardhawk's memorial thread (a cautionary tale of dental care and garlic)

    What in the fuck is the point of insurance that shitty?
  12. Eomer

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    This shit man. Fuck I hate hippies. That's me commenting on that stupid shit.
  13. Eomer

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    Nah, just edumacating an ignorant Ontarian. They think everything West of Hamilton just says "thar be dragons" on the map.
  14. Eomer

    Ever work at a position where you do absolutely nothing?

    Oh, we're talking about IT stuff now? Awesome. My bro regularly gets AIDS on his computer because he apparently can't help himself from looking at filthy porn while at work. I thought that upgrading our workstations from XP to Win7 last spring would prevent most of that shit, but nope, 3 months...
  15. Eomer

    Lego Car

    There's been talk of compressed air cars for years. Problem is, they have to be stupidly light weight.
  16. Eomer

    Fuck Drama. Let's Turn Nets Into A Real System.

    Same. Seemed the simplest.
  17. Eomer

    Steam Deals and Digital Sales

    Aerobiz and Air Bucks were two of my favorite games growing up. Shit was awesome.
  18. Eomer

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    He was responding to Kreugen, not me, you idiot. And 80% of Alberta's population is urban, no different than Ontario or Quebec. The "south" of Canada would be some parts of rural Alberta and central BC. There is some really backwards ass shit going on in BC's nether regions:Bountiful, British...
  19. Eomer

    Pick My Last Charity for the Year

    Oxfam International | Working together to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice
  20. Eomer

    The Ask Kuriin, A Gay Man, Anything Thread

    Home | CSA Group
  21. Eomer

    Whats rustling your jimmies?

    heh, it becomes an obsession for some people, no doubt. My grampa is turning 100 in January, and he's been a cheap fuck his entire life. Grew up in Poland in the depression, so that might have something to do with it, but it's ridiculous. A few years back my mom's at their condo, and her mom...
  22. Eomer

    The Hobbit

    Beorn definitely whoops ass during the war.
  23. Eomer

    The Ask Kuriin, A Gay Man, Anything Thread

    To be clear, if I was visiting construction sites, I'd be wearing an old pair of actual work boots I have. You can't set foot on most sites without CSA approved boots up here.
  24. Eomer

    Buying a car?

    That's really weird, I'd complain to Audi about that shit. I've had the clear 3M film on my past couple cars, but just on the front bumper and partways up the hood. It seems to do a pretty good job protecting the paint from rock chips, although a big enough rock will blow through it. I wish I'd...
  25. Eomer

    Smartphones

    Sorry, wasn't clear. I am 50/50 with Swiftkey between typing and swiping. Yup, I do. What if I meet someone named Perry, though?
  26. Eomer

    Gravity (2013)

    I would imagine that space suits have some sort of humidity control system, otherwise condensation would be a big issue.
  27. Eomer

    The Hobbit

    Long story short, Tolkien was continually revising and changing shit in Middle Earth. The Hobbit and LOTR were the only two stories out of literally hundreds that he ever finalized and published before his death. I remember reading an article about The Hobbit and LOTR, and basically when Tolkien...
  28. Eomer

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Fair enough. It sounded before like you were saying you couldn't visualize gravity, which I thought odd because it's pretty easy to visualize spacetime bending. But if that wasn't what you were getting at, fine.
  29. Eomer

    Buying a car?

    Are you talking for the whole car? Or just the clear rubber stuff on the bumper and/or hood?
  30. Eomer

    Smartphones

    I like Swiftkey, never used Swype. I have had to entirely stop using the word "pretty" though, because it just can't figure that shit out. I DON'T KNOW ANY FUCKING PERRY. FUCK.
  31. Eomer

    Desktop Computers

    Nice, thanks. Picked one up at lunch. Seems pretty cheap for supposedly a really good HSF.
  32. Eomer

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    I dunno, it seemed from his initial post on the matter, he was more after a way to visualize or conceptualize how gravity works: He then followed up with this: I dunno, from my perspective, images of massive objects bending space time and other objects orbiting around their gravity well does a...
  33. Eomer

    Desktop Computers

    Nope.
  34. Eomer

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    Because Albert said so, dick. Regardless, Tuco wasn't really asking the why, just the how. I think anyways.
  35. Eomer

    Desktop Computers

    Hey guys, what's a good but not ridiculous HSF for an i5-4670? Not looking to do water cooling or anything like that. Might do some mild OCing, but nothing crazy, and not messing with voltages. After something that's fairly quiet and easy to install.
  36. Eomer

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    What's wrong with the whole "bending of spacetime" general relativity explanation? That's always worked well enough for me.
  37. Eomer

    The Ask Kuriin, A Gay Man, Anything Thread

    I picked up a pair of these a couple weeks ago:Nanea They're not a full on boot, but they do have a higher cuff or whatever so they're better in the winter with slush/snow. No laces so they're easy to put on. And they're quite comfortable. Probably not the most fashionable boots around, but...
  38. Eomer

    Buying a car?

    Dad's been gone nearly 5 years, it's the bro and I. We're a mechanical contracting company, new construction of multi-family and commercial projects. I don't think anyone, at least in the market that we operate in, gives much of a shit what kind of trucks we have on the road.
  39. Eomer

    Buying a car?

    Honestly, over the past five years we've come to realize that for our company's fleet, there really isn't much reason to keep it super up to date. My dad used to turn the fleet over constantly, with hardly any vehicles older then 3-5 years. We have about 12-15 trucks and vans at any one time...
  40. Eomer

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Several of the support sob stories we've heard here, or at least one of them anyways, wasn't even the result of a marriage. The one common thread is that for better or worse, a few of our bros managed to have children with horrible human beings. Marriage isn't to blame for that, necessarily...