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Moiraine

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  1. What is the difference between a $700 Christmas tree and a $100 Christmas tree?

    No this isn't a joke I really want to know.

    1. GSG

      GSG

      Damn I thought it was a joke! Are we talking artificial or real?

    2. JJ Husker
    3. Moiraine
  2. How much should tree trimming cost?

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    2. JJ Husker

      JJ Husker

      You guys are scaring me.:ohnoes  I need to remove 2 or 3 trees this fall. Only a couple years ago I had a tree removed, stump ground and 8 others trimmed/pruned and it was like $950 total.

       

      Anybody paying $1200-$2000 per month for lawn and trees is outside their mind unless they have multiple well manicured acres.

    3. Enhance

      Enhance

      @JJ Husker yeah that seems outlandish but the first thought that popped into my head was same as yours that they must have a larger than usual property with a lot of trees or something. I have a 1/2 acre and lawn service is $40/week right now.

       

      Lawn/tree care can be quite lucrative if you find the people willing to pay. good news about our pine tree is it’s in the front yard. I’ve heard backyard trees are where they really get ya because of the challenge of getting and using the equipment back there. 

    4. JJ Husker

      JJ Husker

      Haha, great. 2 of the 3 I want to remove are backyard and the other one may be worse because it’s between 2 other trees and between 2 houses. Guess I better start getting quotes now.

  3. I just found out Galaxy Quest was supposed to have a sequel and the only reason it didn't happen was because Alan Rickman died. :(

     

    1. admo

      admo

      :( ... That is a understandable reason.  I love that movie !

  4. Still hilarious after years...

    <NES> lol
    <NES> I download something from Napster
    <NES> And the same guy I downloaded it from starts downloading it from me when I'm done
    <NES> I message him and say "What are you doing? I just got that from you"
    <NES> "getting my song back f#&%er"


    <JonTG> Man, my penis is so big if I laid it out on a keyboard it'd go all the way from A to Z

    <JonTG> wait, s#!t


    <mage> what should I give sister for unzipping?
    <Kevyn> Um. Ten bucks?
    <mage> no I mean like, WinZip?


    SparTacus (rulimbaww@3B942731.dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net) has joined #santcuary
    *SparTacus is now known as Betty_Guns
    wacko Jacko (lbeedy@1C57684.dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net) has joined #santcuary
    <wacko_Jacko>ok spartacus just came n here i know it. which one of you is that loser?
    <hunney> I am spartacus
    <ji_pper>no im spartacus
    <Betty_Guns>I am spartacus
    <mistr andersn>I’m spartacus
    <wacko_Jacko>ur all freaks thats what u r


    http://bash.org/?top

    1. GSG

      GSG

      I don't know what this is....

    2. I AM FOOT FOOT

      I AM FOOT FOOT

      I remember when weed made things like this make sense 

  5. Men's onesie polos are on sale.

    87562599_2958497077568386_48267519359293

    Just kidding, I don't know if they're actually on sale. $17 might be the normal price.

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    2. knapplc

      knapplc

      I have this in Hunter Green. It's quite comfy.

    3. Enhance

      Enhance

      This'll go perfect with my White Claw koozie insulator.

    4. Moiraine

      Moiraine

      @The Dude your neighbors will be relieved.

  6. This Nobody: meme is stupid.

    1. The Dude

      The Dude

      Nobody:

       

      *2 1/2 years later*

       

      Moiraine:  This meme is dumb.

  7. The board is now unusable on mobile, basically. I had an ad in the middle of my screen which took up at least 50% of the space and it isn’t closeable. When I try to close it I have an option of reporting the ad or asking why I’m seeing it. It took me about 10 mins to get this posted because I couldn’t see s#!t. 

    1. Redux

      Redux

      Switch to desktop view

    2. knapplc

      knapplc

      Same. Mobile is completely unusable.

       

      @Redux switching to desktop works, but the majority of folks won't figure that out.

       

      Great way to lose a TON of page views. Super counterproductive.

  8. Men are the worst sometimes. (/s)

     

    I had this bolt I was trying to take out of an exercise bike, and it was the very last bolt/screw I had to take out of the entire thing in order to take the bike apart. I had already done all of the others. But it kept turning with the nut as I was trying to unscrew it. The other side was flat and smooth and there was no way to get anything under it in order to get it to stop turning and no amount of pressure would stop it from turning. I spent at least an hour trying to unscrew it and I had about 7 different tools laying next to me and @Elaida wanders in all nonchalant during a commercial break during his game and 3 minutes later he's taken it out.

    I wasn't watching him do it but I have reason to believe he brute strengthed it and didn't come up with some genius plan I hadn't thought of.

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    2. Moiraine

      Moiraine

      @JJ Husker  Yes but brute strength is cheating. And good idea, I'll have to use that.

       

      @Redux don't think we have any. He didn't use anything I didn't already have on the floor. The thing is the end I was trying to stop from turning is only maybe 3mm thick (and round - how is this not in out of context topic yet?) so it was super hard to get a handle on.

    3. huKSer

      huKSer

      Use a flat head screwdriver to pry up the edge of the round head to create enough friction to prevent the bolt from turning.

    4. Moiraine

      Moiraine

      @huKSer tried it - and I have a very thin flathead. I couldn't get anything to fit underneath.

  9. Can people delete replies to their status updates? If so, why?

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    2. 4skers89

      4skers89

      Delete this! Delete this! See how it feels.

    3. teachercd

      teachercd

      @Moiraine You can control the posts!  YOU HAVE THE POWER

    4. RedDenver
  10. I beat my Georgia in laws at Cornhole today. (and @Elaida)

     

    I brought pride to the Cornhusker state.

  11. I'm tired of watching Husker re-runs. Someone make the next 4 months go away.

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    2. swmohusker

      swmohusker

      Plz don’t wish away my summer.  

    3. JJ Husker

      JJ Husker

      Okay but we're all going to have to hold hands in a big circle and concentrate and a few of us may levitate in the process.

    4. RedDenver

      RedDenver

      Just need some Pym particles.

  12. Can you burp on command?

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    2. JJ Husker

      JJ Husker

      @RedDenver I can't burp on command very well at all but then again I've never really seen the purpose in trying to burp when I don't need to. There's no problem when it's required though.

    3. Frostberg

      Frostberg

      Only when drinking beer.

    4. knapplc

      knapplc

      I used to be able to. Like @ZRod said, just swallow air and belch it out.  I think that's a question of ab strength, because I just tried it for the first time in 20 years and I couldn't do it.

       

       

  13. I almost peed myself watching this.

    NSFW due to F bombs.

     

     

    1. husker98

      husker98

      XD that was pretty great

  14. Can we b******t Bookie's name?

    :P

    1. C N Red

      C N Red

      Dude's getting burnt

    2. chamrocck

      chamrocck

      He looks slow.  Just got torched again.  Not the player I thought he'd be.  

    3. krc1995

      krc1995

      How many of Riley's recruits were as good as advertised? 

  15. This video hurts my stomach.
     

     

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    2. suh_fan93

      suh_fan93

      Yeah can't watch.

    3. commando

      commando

      he trained on this mountain for 2 years using ropes to find the ideal path for this....and he made it safely up the mountain in 4 hours...but still  crazy to do that.  

    4. Moiraine

      Moiraine

      @knapplc @huskered17 @commando

       

      Some people who've studied him based on interviews and what he does for a living think he might be on the autism spectrum which they claim explains why he does/is able to do what he does. Also:

       

      Quote

      Neuroscientists recently studied Honnold’s brain. They put him in a large machine and then quickly showed him a series of terrifying and off-putting images — toilets overflowing with faeces, mangled and bloody faces, a climber dangling over the void — the sort of stuff that would send most people shivering, gagging, or both.

       

      It didn’t register with Honnold. They hadn’t seen anything like it. His amygdala, the part of the brain that reacts to fear, lay dormant.

       

      “Maybe his amygdala is not firing — he’s having no internal reactions to these stimuli,” said neuroscientist Dr. Jane Joseph. “But it could be the case that he has such a well-honed regulatory system that he can say, ‘OK, I’m feeling all this stuff, my amygdala is going off,’ but his frontal cortex is just so powerful that it can calm him down.”

       

      Medically, it would seem, Honnold does not experience fear. At least not in the way that you or I would. Or, if he does experience it, he requires a lot more to set it off than anyone this team of neuroscientists at least has ever studied.

       

      What Honnold does have in spades, from a neurological perspective, is a tendency to seek out sensations, a drive nearly double that of your average brain based on their study. This pushes him, of course, but it also hints at something darker, something addictive.

       

       

      https://www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/science-shows-alex-honnold-feels-no-fear/news-story/57b006f2ea85b6f913c69e5915e0fbd6

  16. I thought I screwed up at work. And I worked until 6:30pm today, and then again from 11pm-12:30am (I didn't have to, just didn't want it to bother me over the weekend), and it turns out I DIDN'T screw up. It was someone else's fault.

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    1. ZRod

      ZRod

      Did you get payed?

  17. That time of season

    When any college football will do, even if it's UMASS.

    1. brophog

      brophog

      It's better than Wyoming. Sorry, I know there are fans here, but grinding it out vs New Mexico St is tediously boring. 

    2. Scarlet Overkill

      Scarlet Overkill

      @brophog, it's not that I'm fascinated by Wyoming's style, I'm more interested in this NMSU train wreck.  It's so hideously, hideously bad, I can't look away.  I almost feel bad for them.

    3. brophog

      brophog

      I wonder if Wyoming just tried to play "red rover" like kids do if NMSU could get off the line of scrimmage.

  18. How do I bet legally on college football?

    Any have some sites they can suggest? I've never done it before.

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    2. krc1995

      krc1995

      I think it depends on the state. I’m in Louisiana and cannot establish a Bovada (or other) account 

    3. JJ Husker

      JJ Husker

      Oooh....I guess you did specify "legally". I guess I'm not sure what, if any, is really legal. Technically I think it depends more on what is legal where you are than on what site you use. Technically it was illegal for me to place bets off shore but they don't report to anyone so....

    4. sho

      sho

      Legally, you go to one of the 4 states that allows sports betting and bet there.   Technically, as of now, there are no legal sites to place wagers.

  19. Skip the Dishes is going to be the (financial) death of me.

    I can have sushi delivered to my place now. That's bad.

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    2. Enhance

      Enhance

      @ZRod I'd eat sushi every day, if I could.

    3. ZRod

      ZRod

      Thank you for proving my point :P

    4. Enhance
  20. Paul McCarpooltney Karaoke

    Paul's my least favorite Beatle but this is awesome.
     

     

    1. commando

      commando

      that was good.  thanks for sharing

  21. People of Whole Foods.

    I cannot enter a Whole Foods without seeing at least 2 people covered head to toe in North Face, someone wearing flowing flowery pants/bell-bottoms, and at least one person in dreadlocks.

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    2. ZRod

      ZRod

      @Comfortably Numb yes. And they trade furs and chickens. Grains too.

       

    3. teachercd

      teachercd

      They have good sushi too!  And some cool beers

    4. RedDenver

      RedDenver

      My wife is allergic to corn and soy, so Whole Foods was one of the only places we could get a lot of stuff, especially sauces and canned goods. But around Denver the regular grocery stores have started carrying a lot more stuff we can use. And Sprouts is really good although small selection. Plus Amazon bought Whole Foods and, from people I know who work there, are reducing the quality of the food while keeping similar prices, so we've mostly stopped going to WF now.

  22. Princess Beatrice has it made.

    She has access to loads of $ and gets to hang out in castles.
    Most people don't know who she is.
    But enough people know that she can go have a little fun with her fame, for example when she wore the hat below.
    She gets to hang out with her granny Queen Elizabeth and the royal family but not be on camera all the time.
    She probably has to go on some engagements but not many.

     

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    2. JJ Husker
    3. NUance

      NUance

      Sure she has it made, but do they feed her a carrot every day?  Nei-ei-ei-eigh!

    4. Moiraine

      Moiraine

      So mean! Her sister's a lil purtier.

       

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  23. Proper A/C temperature?

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    2. Toe

      Toe

      80 is about the point where I start to sweat after a while (depending on humidity), so 78 or so is about my upper limit during the summer. The area where my computer sits tends to be the hottest part of my home, though, so the thermostat might be at more like 74.

    3. MLB 51

      MLB 51

      Depends on who is paying the bill. :D

       

      Otherwise, whatever you are comfortable with.

    4. VectorVictor

      VectorVictor

      78 Degrees in Summer

      72 Degrees in Winter 

      Convince me otherwise. 

  24. Why don't tank tops have tanks on them?

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    2. Moiraine

      Moiraine

      That's a beautiful shirt.

    3. funhusker

      funhusker

      ^^^^They offered a discount, it would have been dumb not to buy it.

    4. Scarlet Overkill

      Scarlet Overkill

      As long as there are some "nice guns" coming out of the tank top, you don't actually need any tanks on it.

  25. Why aren't 40 times done in pads?

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    2. teachercd

      teachercd

      I think that is a good point.  I do think that at that level the pads really don't bother any of them anymore (I coach HS ball and you should see some kids the first time they put pads on, it is basically a documentary on stupidity) but I still think you have a good point.

    3. ZRod

      ZRod

      Pads are just a noise that can't be controlled. It's not worth measuring.  The point of the testing is to measure raw ability not account for noise or other variables. It's an excellent baseline. The best really. 

       

      Why don't we make them run up and down the feild, get hit a couple times, and then take the Wondelic?

    4. Toe

      Toe

      Would be iffy to compare times wearing old-school pads vs modern ones.

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