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  1. Gravel

    NFL 2017 Offseason - Where does Romo go?

    Osweiler's a damn fool, then. He made a shit ton of money for being a complete failure. Shit, he can retire tomorrow with a Super Bowl ring and millions of fucking dollars. And he sucked at his job. The world is a fucked up place.
  2. Gravel

    Wall art ideas

    I'm a complete art noob, but this confused me. You're buying prints, so what the fuck is a knock off? Isn't the print already basically a knock off?
  3. Gravel

    Rick and Morty

    I've stated before that I don't like them. So you're not alone. They seem like something I would have liked when I was 10, but now most seem dumb. Just having an idiotic premise or repeating the same word two dozen times isn't funny to me. There were a few skits that were good with the...
  4. Gravel

    NFL 2017 Offseason - Where does Romo go?

    So instead of getting whatever picks a franchise QB would be worth, instead you get nothing. Oh, wait, not nothing...a 3rd round comp pick next year. Sounds like he's really thought it through.
  5. Gravel

    NFL 2017 Offseason - Where does Romo go?

    If true, I've got to say, Bruce Allen might be the worst thing to happen to the Redskins since Snyder. Oh, he wants another fucking former Bucs personnel guy? Because those have been working out so well so far. Clown.
  6. Gravel

    NFL 2017 Offseason - Where does Romo go?

    Now that one I don't agree with. Niners would be massively overpaying for Garcon if that's true.
  7. Gravel

    NFL 2017 Offseason - Where does Romo go?

    I don't think anyone is questioning the Niners taking him. You do whatever you have to do to get a franchise QB. Personally, I think it's worth several first rounders for a guy you know is top 10. The alternative is you flounder around year after year with your first round picks not contending...
  8. Gravel

    NFL 2017 Offseason - Where does Romo go?

    It sounds like maybe Cousins wants to be in San Francisco with Shanahan. If that's the case, I mean, what option does Washington have? They basically screwed the pooch with franchising him last year on a "prove it" deal. Now they have no leverage. Cousins either plays the franchise this year...
  9. Gravel

    Top Gear (UK)

    Glad I'm not the only one. I watched the first 8 (through the Namibia special) but haven't managed to care enough to finish the season. I never missed an episode of Top Gear with them on it, but there's just something about TGT that makes me not give a shit.
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    DOTA 2

    NA qualifiers have been shit stomps all around; meanwhile China right now is Newbee Boss vs VG. Open qualifiers are fucking weird. Wasn't familiar with Newbee Boss, either, but it's xiao8, OldEleven, Ferrari, Chuan, and Zei9. The Liquid site says it's an "entertainment" team, and not...
  11. Gravel

    Taxes 2016

    Health insurance premiums are non-taxable. The effect is that they lower your income on the W-2, so they're never calculated in your taxes. If you're not a W-2 employee, however, I have no clue how to calculate that.
  12. Gravel

    NFL 2017 Offseason - Where does Romo go?

    Redskins extended Gruden for 2 years. First time in 18 years (8 coaches) that Snyder has extended a coach.
  13. Gravel

    Home Improvement

    I cut my thumb pretty good at one point (I was sitting there like, why is my pry bar all sticky...oh, my hand is covered in blood). I was actually pretty surprised that was my only injury, and it was more than halfway through it. My hands have a few nicks, and they're sore as shit, but that's it.
  14. Gravel

    Home Improvement

    My countertop guy still hasn't scheduled when he's coming, but he mentioned this upcoming week. Hopefully they call tomorrow. Anyway, after work on Friday I decided I'd try to take out a section of the backsplash and possibly replace the drywall underneath. That turned into me ripping out half...
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    Passengers (2016)

    Thought it was decent to good. It definitely had some problems, but a lot of sci fi does. It was kind of funny where towards the end I said to my wife, "now that they can access the crew cabins, they should just wake them up to fix it." Sure enough, the next scene they're both in the...
  16. Gravel

    It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

    I went back and looked at the last few seasons, and there have been a LOT of misses. Probably outnumber the good episodes 3:1. But those good ones? They've been knocking them out of the park.
  17. Gravel

    NFL 2017 Offseason - Where does Romo go?

    So the Redskins essentially make a trade of Cousins for Romo? Yeah...that totally makes sense.
  18. Gravel

    It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

    I didn't think that was super dark, assuming you're talking about the Cricket episode. But maybe you're a week behind? I had read your comment before watching this week's and expected something super fucked up to happen to Cricket. Fucking his dad's dog seemed pretty mild considering it's Cricket.
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    Cord-Cutting, Or How to Stream your Way to Success

    From what I've read, with DMCA's, they just dump a couple pieces each, but each indexer seems to do random ones. That way it's "gone." The way around that is to use two indexers because they'll likely have different missing pieces, so you can still end up with the entire file. Dunno how legit...
  20. Gravel

    Cord-Cutting, Or How to Stream your Way to Success

    Anyone know of any free usenet indexers? Currently using Tweaknews and I'm happy with it, but I think I need a secondary one for stuff that gets DMCA'd. It's been a growing problem lately, especially for movies, for anything over about 6 months old. I could obviously pay for a 2nd one (and...
  21. Gravel

    Survivor

    I'm not super excited about this season in general. Tired of seeing a lot of these people. Sandra and Cirie? Fucking yawn.
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    Home Improvement

    I actually figured that out by accident, when one of our estimators came in, looked at our kitchen and said, "That's 2 slabs, about $xxxx." Didn't take a single measurement. Figured out at that point you're basically just buying the whole slab. Anything leftover is probably made into a sample or...
  23. Gravel

    Home Improvement

    Oh, sorry. No, that's what they were saying was included in the $4500 for the kitchen. He said an additional $1500 if I wanted a tile backsplash. But fuck that. Tiling is way too easy to pay someone else to do it.
  24. Gravel

    Home Improvement

    Tile countertops (and backsplash). It's for the kitchen and two bathrooms. Also includes plywood (although that's incredibly minor). We considered doing the demo ourselves, but I said fuck that, mostly just because I don't feel like spending my weekend doing it. And I agree on the backsplash...
  25. Gravel

    Home Improvement

    I'd probably be fine with just getting a price per square foot. I just have a hard time with receiving an estimate that says "a, b, c, d, e" and I say, "I'll do c myself and don't want e" and the estimate is still the same. I know it's just an estimate, but it doesn't give me a warm and fuzzy...
  26. Gravel

    Home Improvement

    How should I expect something like a countertop installation to be invoiced? We got a few estimates for it, but they were all just a single sum, which seemed strange to me. I asked the contractor that we decided to go with to give me a breakout of the costs, but it was still kind of...not what...
  27. Gravel

    NFL 2017 Offseason - Where does Romo go?

    He's deserved it. The big question mark will be if Ben retires, who the hell will throw him the ball?
  28. Gravel

    The Oscars Best Picture fuckup

    Oscars just proving how much of a joke they are. Also, anyone else find it strange that last year there was the whole #OscarsSoWhite thing, and this year a shit load of awards go to the "black movie?" I guess on the plus side, most people seem to be getting tired of Hollywood sucking their own...
  29. Gravel

    Youtube and Monetization

    I wasn't saying YouTube was dead. Just that anyone hoping to start up a random channel and quit their jobs probably already missed their opportunity.
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    Youtube and Monetization

    I honestly think the YouTube wave has mostly ended. It's very saturated. You'll get the occasional new thing like "guy cuts random shit with 2000 degree knife," but unless you come up with some click baitey shit like that, good luck making more than a few hundred bucks.
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    How much income is enough?

    I just don't understand people who are able to burn through a six figure household income, paycheck to paycheck. We currently save somewhere around $60k a year. I have no idea what I'd buy every month to burn through that. As is, we spend pretty lavishly (we just went to Disneyland this week...
  32. Gravel

    How much income is enough?

    I actually somewhat agree with a_skeleton_03 regarding credit for emergencies. Emergency funds are great for people with nothing saved at all. This is, currently, the area where my wife and I are finally getting around to changing. We have a little over $200k in retirement accounts and like...
  33. Gravel

    Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

    Have had it downloaded since October of 2015, but I finally got around to watching Southpaw. Damn good movie. Honestly, Gyllenhaal is quickly pulling away as my favorite actor.
  34. Gravel

    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Did she go to the style awards dressed as Willy Wonka's wallpaper?
  35. Gravel

    The Best and Worst States in the Union: Many Metrics

    If not for the people, California is just absolutely amazing. I might say the same thing about Utah, too (not sure how anyone deals with their winters though). But California is just gorgeous. Fucking everywhere. And it's super diverse.
  36. Gravel

    Workaholics

    It's the final season, too. I quit it. Just not worth 20 minutes of my time anymore.
  37. Gravel

    The Best and Worst States in the Union: Many Metrics

    Ha. I'm 33. Did you actually live in Howard County? I went to 3 different high schools, and generally was pretty introverted (Wilde Lake 00-02, Atholton 99-00, River Hill 98-99). Didn't play any sports. And Alex, I wasn't saying SF sucks. Just that people think all of CA is those two cities...