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It has been 15 years since I traveled to Europe so I don't know how true this still is, but when I went I was warned to always tell people asking me where I was from to respond with Canada. I really don't think there are gangs of Europeans looking to beat the shit out of Americans, but if you...

Yes, I think in trying to find the "next style" after IPA's, saisons are definitely gaining a lot of traction. Sours have also carved out a nice little niche but I don't think they will ever be as big as IPA just because the expense of them prices a lot of people out of the market. Maybe...

No it is a very old Belgian/French style. But yeah, it is a style that seems to be taking off. Anything labeled "Farmhouse" is also usually a saison as well. The style was originally brewed for farm workers in those regions. When an ale is fermented too warm the yeast will put out a lot of...

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Don't know about the Capital One card, but +1 on the Costco AmEx

I thought the character development in this season was excellent. I thought how they got rid Vee felt a little too contrived but that was just a minor complaint. Funny side note. I have a friend whose nickname has been Beercan for as long as I have known him (10+ years now). He got the...

I don't know much about soccer, but technically his foot did get stepped on so technically that is a foul, right? Isn't him flailing to the ground just the "gamesmanship" soccer fans always bring up when non-soccer fan complains about flopping?

You do realize that "counting the money" is pretty much a full time job at even a single restaurant and is usually only item #1 on a long list of an owners responsibilities, right?

My wife is an RN and works a 0.6, which means she works 48 hours a pay-period and her schedule is 6 days one week, next week off. She brings in between 5-10k less than what I pay myself by the end of the year usually. Close enough to where no person can hold the fact they "bring home the bacon"...

QFT. Nesting is the worst. With my wife, she has a list of projects that can be busted out in a weekend, but she is somehow convinced if it doesn't get doneTHIS WEEKENDit won't be done when the baby arrives. Plus she wants a bunch of irrelevant shit done for no reason what-so-ever. Our perfectly...

Maybe in your industry this is true, but I still see plenty of great waiters/waitresses who work their asses off and fight over tables to get their tips.

I see what you are saying here but you are missing the some of the bigger pictures of the financials of running a restaurant. In Seattle the minimum wage is going from $9.32-$15.00, which is about a 60% increase. Since labor is about 1/3 of a restaruants expenses, a 20% increase in menu prices...

What a dick tease.

Keep in mind most of us in happy marriages aren't coming into this thread telling our stories. "Hey, last night my wife made me a philly cheesesteak and kept my beer full for me all night. Love her so much!" Not very entertaining reading nor does it follow the trend of the thread. But some of us...

I figured by "latest" Nexus you meant the currently available one. /shrug

You do realize the latest Nexus is built by LG right? Rumor is that the Nexus 6 won't be built by LG but the N6 itself is still just a rumor.

Finally made the pilgrimage to Russian River. It was like beer Disneyland for me. PTE wasn't life changing but I understand why it is the gold standard of hoppy beers. Had sips or pints of about 6 of their beers total plus brought a growler of Blind Pig back to WA that I haven't broken into yet...

Nope. ABV is not required to be listed. Most of the time it is, but not always. I have a fuck-ton of empty bottles because I save them for homebrewing and I had to dig through quite a few but I found a Rogue 22oz "OREgasmic Ale" bottle that does not list an ABV anywhere, and I have searched top...

Delivery charge is generally there because if a delivery driver gets into an accident, rather than going through the drivers insurance (assuming they are driving their own vehicle like most do for pizza) the accident "victims" try to sue the shit out of the restaurant assuming they have more...

Here is the problem with just banning guns. There are 80 million (admitted) gun owners out there in the U.S. currently. Let's say you get your wish and the damn things are banned and let's be generous 90% initially comply with your ban. That leaves 8 million (admitted) gun owners still out...

Dude, you need to drink that Enjoy By :P

What I really am hoping is Tyrion kills Tywin, credits roll, then after credits we get the Lady Stoneheart bonus scene.

Not in WA. Can't pay below minimum wage and compensate with tip income. So they already make $9.32 an hour + tips currently. Soon to be $15 and hour + tips if they still get them.

So Seattle just passed the $15 an hour minimum wage increase. Although the increase is phased in over several years, they are already starting to see a "Living Wage Surcharge" added to checks, typically in the 15-20% range. This is an option many restaurants are opting for rather than outright...

12 miles isn't THAT big of deal, you do that much walking during a day in Vegas and you are usually wasted on top of that. But around here, a 12 mile hike usually also entails several thousand feet of elevation gain. Those can kick my ass early in the spring/summer when I haven't been doing shit.

So even naked Eva Green wasn't enough to get this thread bumped? I think she is really nailing her performance but even with the backstory episode the whole thing seems meandering and lost. We are getting some great acting but the story needs to really start coming together because right now I'm...

Yeah, I agree. It is a worthy endeavor to try to quantify a players performance as objectively and statistically driven as possible, but eventually you need to rely on the good old fashion eyeball test. And based off of what I have watched I think that Felix's changeup is the best pitch in...

/shrug I am not sure. I would think that if ESPN had their own formula they would probably have some proprietary shit that they would shove down our throats like they do with QBR in football. All I can tell you for sure is that I have always used and trusted Fangraphs for Sabermetrically...

My wife is a nurse. She isn't too crazy (pregnancy is messing with that a bit lately) but otherwise the other stereotypes hold true. She will tell you that most other nurses are crazy. I think it is a combination of getting an inferiority complex thanks to all the doctors and their God...

This is what I see at Fangraphs.

Felix Hernandez looks like he is putting together a career year. His WAR is a full point above the next closest pitcher, FIP under 2.00, and is amongst the league leaders in every relevant pitching category. Anyone who doesn't think he is the best pitcher in baseball is stupid and wrong.

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I've actually tried it with so-so results. One of those things that works on paper but not in practice imo.

Named 3 of my current favorite "regionally distributed" breweries (although I tend to lean towards their hoppier styles). Haven't seen anything from Mission Brewery up my way, but I will keep my eye out.

They could have manipulated the deal to include this year if it included a signing bonus (which could be applied to this year or spread out over the contract). But really I doubt much of the deal is included in this years cap number because they currently don't have the space.

Yeah, but they always play games with how the cap money gets spread out. Look at Flacco's numbers, despite the $120mil contract number (or ~$20mil a year averaged out) he actually has pretty reasonable cap hits until they spike up to $28 and $31 million dollars in 2016/2017.

One thing the 49ers have been doing and continue to do is to accumulate draft picks to keep a steady supply of cost-controlled players coming into the system. But they will have some tough cap decisions to make now that they don't have a cost-controlled QB. Crabtree and Aldon Smith come...

Yeah, negotiating now while the available cap space is lower may lead toward a more cap-friendly number should the cap rise as predicted. But it isn't like agents are oblivious to this information either. Haven't seen the actual cap # breakdowns, but roughly $18mil a year? It is high but not...