@Doctor-Phibes said in Bad timing:

I’m spending my first night in our new place tonight. We’re going to be camping in the basement until the floors and walls are done upstairs, although my office should be usable tomorrow if Verizon come through.

Movers came today - most of our stuff is temporarily in the garage. I have a garage again! In fact, I’ve got two! Inconceivable!

Closing on our current place was pushed back to the 14th, which reduces the pressure, as long as it goes through….

Glad it’s worked out well, especially compared to how things were looking a month ago.

Shelby is no longer PC.

@taiwan_girl said in Wonderlic Trivia:

I just did a practice test on-line I dont know how accurate it is. It was 25 questions vs. 50 in the regular test and there were 6 minutes to complete.

If I double my score, I was much higher than a football player. LOL

Good. Now, if you have a red dog through the B gap, from a 4-man line in a Tampa 2 defense, who do you block first, the 6 '5" 265 pound guy on the end or the 6'2" 230 pound guy?

Assuming you are playing the position with the highest Wonderlic.

I've been for changing the libel laws for a long time. I'd like to go back to an earlier standard.

Sorry, but TPTB knew at the time they put this mandate in place that A) the vaccine does not prevent COVID infection, and B) the mortality rate for active duty personnel would be lower than the general populance of the same age, which was infinitesimal.

So no, they didn't follow the science. That argument is laughable.

The mandate for this subsection of the population was about control and politics. Nothing more.

You know your policies are inherently hilarious when even the Dutch can crack wise about it.

France, a fence picket up the ass since 1938….

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63090644

Am sure France will surrender before Ukraine Russia.

I guess this could go here or the Venn picture thread.

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King Ozymandias of Assyria was running low on cash after years of war with the Hittites. His last great possession was the Star of the Euphrates , the most valuable diamond in the ancient world. Desperate, he went to Croesus, the pawnbroker, to ask for a loan.

Croesus said, "I'll give you 100,000 dinars for it."

"But I paid a million dinars for it," the King protested. "Don't you know who I am? I am the king!"

Croesus replied, "When you wish to pawn a Star, makes no difference who you are."

Except the groupings in gin rummy are all logical and don’t change every year.

You know it’s a bad neighborhood when you see a bird carrying a knife wearing an ankle bracelet.43107ECA-0E04-4482-9082-13D012946BE3.jpeg

Did the other migrants know where White Plains is?

<asking for a friend>

One man/one woman. Anything else is horseshit oozing onto the road to Perdition.

George, look here: https://www.zgws.org/zgwsstrt.php

Started this last night.

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@George-K said in Hurricane Ian:

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Well, they're kinda right. Served for dinner not came to...

There have definitely been some core "groups" that generally started and stopped about the same time, and I would argue made some of the better seasons of SNL... late 70s, mid-80s, mid-90s, and late 2000s... but there is a larger cast it seems lately, with changes, so it does feel less consistent.

I think also SNL faces an insane amount of streaming/alternate pressures that no longer makes it a weekly staple of entertainment that some used to rely on it for.

That being said, I watched a little bit of it last weekend for the first time in probably 10 years. Ironic.

Leave it to the video maker to monkey around like that.

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The painted on “clothing” has been HUGE with cosplayers at Sci-fi/Comic Book Cons.