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Why didn't ABC do the Disney Sing-a-long thing live...with a donation tally running on the side of the screen with all the cash going to help people out and you could have dudes like Mark Cuban use his Venmo and shoot in like 10,000 dollars and stuff like that. Would have made crazy scratch.
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Will your job/career be better/worse/same when the US "opens" up?
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One of the more interesting things about all this is going to be the aftermath. How does society change? I could see a situation where society is opened back up, but at least for a period of time some people don't have a desire or feel comfortable in big crowds like game days. Some people will run out as fast as they can do do those things. Others won't. That could affect some people's jobs.
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Anyone else make their first tic-tock yet?
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Genesis Health Club will freeze your account for 3 months but I think you have to contact them and tell them to do it. DirectTV is also slashing prices right now.
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Your 3 favorite genres of movies...
Mine
1. Horror
2. Comedy
3. 80's Teen (I think that counts)
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Why are chicken legs so cheap but chicken wings sort of pricey?
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@ColoradoHusk Love Triple D. Several times on family vacations, we would look up if the show had been at anywhere around us and to check it out. We have never been disappointed. In early March, I ate at one in Salt Lake City.
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National Guard setting up at hospitals in CB.
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Makes sense--they've taken over the Convention Center in Downtown Dallas and started wiring the main floor for electricity to support makeshift beds and ventilators.
The next month and change is gonna be rough (Dallas has a Shelter at home through May 20, and there's been talk they'll extend through all of May).
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A TV Show where you can name just one person and people know the show. I will start, if you can answer it, answer and give a clue to a new one: JR Ewing
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No students in schools until May 31st...
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FYI: If you email and annoy Chase Bank right now...they will cut you some deals.
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Your best sandwich...what are you putting on it?
I like a roll, smoked turkey, bacon, tomato, lettuce, dijon mustard, mayo, pepper and cheddar cheese.
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Tangent: I used to have a roommate from China. I got some cottage cheese one day and put it in the fridge. The next morning I came downstairs to find him at the table eating a cottage cheese sandwich for breakfast. Apparently he'd never had cottage cheese before. He thought it was some kind of sandwich spread. // I sorta want to try it. But I just can't bring myself to make a cottage cheese sandwich.
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@NUance Was it cottage cheese between two slices of bat? Errrr...I mean bread.
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Anyone golfed with the non-hole golf holes that courses are using?
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Your best "quitting a job" story? Mine...I worked for Lincoln Trap and Skeet...I think they hired me the same day I went in for the "interview" . I worked the entire day, a Saturday, I think. I was supposed to come back the next day and just never did...It was HORRIBLE. The shooters were dicks.
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I don't have any crazy quitting stories, but I did have a funny "firing" story (Teach knows this story). I was doing some temp accounting work for a company which makes candles outside Chicago (think Yankee Candle, but not quite as successful). My "boss" was a douchy guy who had an earring and thought he was hot s#!t because he was the lead accounting/finance guy at this place. After being there 2-3, and not getting much work to do, the guy let me go on a Friday morning. He said he was mad at me for not asking to do more work, even though I thought that his job was to give me stuff to work on. On my way home, the temp company called me and they were upset with me. They said the "boss" called me lazy and I stole a bunch of candles from their warehouse. I changed my name of my fantasy baseball team to Lazy Candle Stealer that season.
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I had a job once where my mentor was supposed to get me up to speed on some tasks. I'd had a similar job for nearly 3 years so it wasn't like I was starting at ground zero. But the mentor would have me do the same task over and over, making a few small changes each time. Sometimes keeping me there until 8:00 or 9:00 pm doing this crap because he'd make more money putting in the extra hours. I kept the revisions for a couple of tasks, and showed our boss what he'd been doing. You could see that the second revision was substantially the same as the seventh revision. I did this because I knew s#!t would hit the fan when they tallied up my meager work throughput. Sure enough, a couple weeks later the boss called me into his office. He told me that I wasn't getting enough work done, so I'd have to put in more hours. I told him that not only was I not going to put in more hours, but I wasn't going to put in any hours. I quit right there on the spot. (I landed a job at a much better place about three weeks later.)
Several years later I worked for a company that could have sent a great deal of work to that first place. Needless to say, they never got a nickel's worth of business from us, or from any company I've worked for since.
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Many years ago I was working at a job that often needed working on weekend hours. I was basically in charge of one crew and a buddy of mine was in charge of the other. We had been there a few years and had it arranged to where we would each take off alternate weekends and still get all the work done. Well.....the company brought in a new guy over us and he had this wise idea that everyone was going to work 6 on and 2 off. That is a 8 day week so naturally your two days off would keep slipping back one day per week. I didn’t like the idea of days off being different every week and working so many weekends in a row but the new guy was trying to sell it by telling us we would get a 4 day mini vacation every 8 weeks. Anyway, I told him I thought it sucked and that he would receive my notice the day he announced that would actually happen. Of course he didn’t believe me. Well the day came and he said that’s the way it was going. I told him I’d already given him my notice, quit, wished him luck then I walked out and never went back.
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Who remembers how they saw their first Playboy as a kid?
I was snooping in my parents closet...under a box there were like 3 magazines...one was a Playboy...I was probably like 11 years old.
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@teachercd what were the other two magazines?
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Any of you use delivery services like Grub Hub or Door Dash? What is the charge?
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I have a Chase Sapphire Preferred credit card and they are offering a full year of Premium Doordash for all 'DashPass' restaurants, which essentially means you don't have to page the usage fee; you just pay for the food + tax and then a tip for the driver.
DoorDash has also added TONS of restaurants to the DashPass in the last few days because of the coronavirus. The service is currently defaulted to 'no contact delivery' so they drop it off at the door and text you through the app saying it's there. So far, I've been really pleased.
If you don't have a Chase card, paying for the premium service for the next couple of months may be worth it if you want to use it more than 3+ times. I think it's about $10/month for premium.
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@JJ Husker I'm in the same boat. What they're recommending right now for delivery food is to transfer the food from the containers onto your own dishware (using your own utensils) and then making sure to wash your hands again before eating.
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Officially the worst episode of the Walking Dead.
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I started binge watching during season 3 being on TV. Once I had caught up I started reading the comics.
Well, the comic ended last year. The show deviated from the comic so poorly that it cannot survive. The show show botched All Out War so badly that I essentially stopped watching a few episodes into the following season. I'll catch up at some point but wow did they mess that up, so I had very little faith they would do justice to the Whisperers. Sounds like I was right.
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Favorite TV show(s) from when you were 12-17. Go
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Everyone on Social Media last week: Teachers have it easy, they don't need more money, they choose that job AND they get summers off!
Everyone on Social Media after about 3 days of having their kids at home: My god, this is horrible, how do teachers do it?
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I know poker is not as big as it was about 10 years ago...but do any of you have a bad beat (or great win) story?
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At an old job, co-workers and I would have a monthly game, my boss and a lot of mid and upper management and me, a direct report at the time. Not a hug buy in for them, for me at the time it was a decent one, played one table tourneys and we'll play multiple a night. First game, first hand, I get AK in the hole. Flop comes A-K-7. I bet a decent bet and get an immediate call and the other 5 fold. So now it's heads up. Next card, a dead card, can't remember what it is. River card comes, another king. So I'm sitting full house, Kings over aces. I go all in, guy calls right away. Flip my hand start going to collect my chips, he flips his hand. He had A-A in the hole. He wins with a full house Aces over kings. Had to sit and stew for an hour and half waiting for them to finish the game
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I don’t have a bad beat that I can think of in a loss, but we played almost daily in high school and one friend we invited to the table lost bad so we kept inviting him back and he would continue to lose a lot of money. We would invite him and he kept coming back to the games, but then eventually that s.o.b. hung around so much he would catch the river or runner-runner so often that bad beats was renamed to “getting Chad’d.” Effin Chads, man lol. That guy lived on the river and ended up winning so often.
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Who here ever bartended? And, was is it a blast or annoying?
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Dude orders a beer from a guy bartender: 3 dollars...gets 2 dollars back...leaves a one dollar tip.
Dude orders a beer from a hot girl bartender: 3 dollars...gets 2 dollars back...leaves a two dollar tip...his phone number...orders a round of shots...one for her as well...tips her again...reminds her that he gave her his digits...orders another round and gives another big tip.
But hey, hot girls have it rough! Ha
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Well...I am thinking us teachers are not going back this year.
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@teachercd I like my boats more than I do most people!
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@man eating mastodon I like your boats (which I've never even seen) better than most people too. It's a low bar...
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Are any of you doing things differently because of the virus? Skipping work, skipping the gym, face masks...
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Wife and I are working from home full time starting Monday. Also kids will be out of school for at least 3 weeks because of this. Bought a lot of extra freezer food (just in case). We are going to do our best to isolate through this week and see how it goes. I may need to go for a 30 minute drive every day to get out of the house.
If you haven't seen it, that WaPo simulation on social distancing left an impression on my wife and me. We figure its a small inconvenience for us to help flatten the curve is worth it.
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Millard North with, maybe, the greatest melt down in state championship history!
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Bigger Choke Job: 2020 Millard North or 1989 Pius X (vs Wahoo)? Pius blew a 16 point lead with 6 mins to go and a 9 point lead with 1 minute to go.
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Still nothing from the K-12 schools in Nebraska...interesting.
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So one of my bets today...Jays first half -3...so that misses and I lose money...then the game is cancelled! Ha .