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by Rishi on Sep 30, 2011 6:57 AM PDT
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In the vein of websites like FML and TFLN comes "That Awkward Moment When..." that's gaining popularity.
It's a pretty simple game. Describe an awkward moment that you think others can relate to:
Here are a couple examples to get you started: (http://stricktlydating.hubpages.com/hub/The-Best-That-awkward-moment-when-Quotes)
- That awkward moment when you're left alone with your friends' parents
- That awkward moment when someone you hate says something funny and you try not to laugh
- That awkward moment when someone says hello and you say "Good thanks!"
- That awkward moment when you say "Goodbye!" to someone but you both walk off in the same direction.
- That awkward moment when you type your ex's name into your Facebook status instead of the 'Search' bar.
- That awkward moment when you try to exit through a closed glass door.
Also, let's just make some CGB-related ones because life here is so much cooler than it is for these socially-awkward penguins who post these things:
- That awkward moment when you've post a new DBD, only to discover you've been beaten by a couple minutes
- That awkward moment when you brag about posting the joke first, but on everyone else's screen, you came second
- That awkward moment when you close the DBD without z'ing through all comments first.
- That awkward moment when you quote part of an article, but all that shows up is "I <3 cock"
Happy Friday, all!
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Tavecchio Named Semifinalist for Campbell Trophy
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The National Football Foundation (NFF) and College Football Hall of Fame announced Thursday that Cal senior placekicker Giorgio Tavecchio is a semifinalist for the prestigious William V. Campbell Trophy often referred to as the “Academic Heisman” and a candidate for the 2011 NFF National Scholar-Athlete Awards.
The NFF’s Scholar-Athlete Awards are presented by Fidelity InvestmentsĀ®, a leading provider of not-for-profit workplace retirement savings plans in higher education. The 2011 William V. Campbell Trophy, endowed by HealthSouth, will recognize an individual as the absolute best scholar-athlete in the nation. A total of 127 NFF Scholar-Athlete Award candidates and Campbell Trophy semifinalists across all divisions of college football are vying for the honors.
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"Occupy Wall Street" protest hits San Francisco FiDi
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“Why is life a bitch? Cause we don’t tax the rich!”
Such was the chant of the nearly 200 San Franciscans who surrounded the Bank of America building in the center of the Financial District Thursday afternoon to rally against bank bailouts and the country’s uneven tax structure. The rally was a west coast offshoot of the “Occupy Wall Street” protests that have continued in New York City for nearly two weeks.
The initially-peaceful crowd included families, children, dogs and bands playing drums, saxophones and banjos. Mayoral candidate and city Supervisor John Avalos opened the march with a speech that attacked big banks.
“Have you ever felt like you’ve been had?” he asked the crowd. “That’s why this building right here is a symbol of the incredible greed and wealth that has accumulated into fewer and fewer hands.”
“And how do they stay wealthy?” he added. “They took our tax dollars. They got bailed out.” Avalos then urged crowd members to take their money out of national banks and invest it in smaller, community banks that care about local concerns.
The demonstrators then marched down Montgomery Street to Charles Schwab, surrounding the building and baffling employees inside. Protestors beat drums, sang songs and chanted, “Charles Schwab, give us our money back” and “Who bailed the banks out? We bailed the banks out.”
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I saw these protests yesterday when I was going for a walk, protesting outside a retail branch of Chase on Market and 2nd. Why specifically they’re protesting outside a retail branch, as opposed to the corporate offices, I don’t know.
Also, I understand Charles Schwab is a “big bank” and their building logo is highly visible, but it seems kinda silly to chide them for the bailouts and asking for “[their] money back” when Charles Schwab didn’t participate in TARP.
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i have a tarp
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--Coach Clark
another example of the masses oversimplifying and unwilling to do adequate research before jumping on some passionate bandwagon.
It’s like slapping a WalMart cashier for the company’s anti-union ‘strategy’
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Agree.
Putting aside my personal feelings on the issue, I understand “Wall Street” is a convenient target, but doing this stuff just makes it way too easy to dismiss them and it affects the same “99%” that they claim to represent.
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another example of some of the stupidity that exists in America these days:
Some of the fake Libertarians that are SOOO against government intrusion, but then make statements like ‘…and don’t you dare touch my medicare or social security payments.’
sigh.
Tony Gonzalez? University of California?
KEEP GOVERNMENT OUT OF MY MEDICARE
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 10:08 AM PDT up reply actions
It also seems silly to protest against TARP when it hasn’t cost us anything. Protest the nationalisation of the insurers, hippies. Go after the tax structure all you want, but if you think you really would rather the banks weren’t bailed out, you have a much stronger tolerance for worldwide depression than most.
I’ll also bring up the point that it’s kinda silly to protest against companies that were essentially forced to take TARP (you know which ones those are).
Hell, sounds like they should be “occupying” D.C., not Wall Street.
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sounds like they should be "occupying" D.C
Does his wife know about this!??!
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Sounds uncomfortable in more ways than one.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
You’ll take TARP and you’ll like it!
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Sounds like a prison movie…
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
I’ve managed to evade the coppers this long, they’re never taking me to the hoosegow!
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Yes
I’ve been practicing from all these movies that CalBear81 recommended.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
I’ve always been very interested to see how all the banks balance sheets would look if they had to writeoff their losses on mortgages and related products, instead of trying to slowly recapitalize for years by delaying those writeoffs….
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 8:23 AM PDT up reply actions
I don’t think it’d be that interesting. Excel files all tend to look the same to me.
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What’s interesting is whether or not our nations banking system is really completely bankrupt. I have no idea, but I’d like to know the answer.
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 9:44 AM PDT up reply actions
TARP isn’t the problem (that worked out OK).
Rich assholes are the problem. OH! And wouldn’t you know it, a lot of them are in finance!
What does that even mean? What are they protesting? That they don’t pay enough taxes? Fine, once again, that’s the government’s decision, not theirs. Campaign finance? Same thing.
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They’re probably mad that Wall St steals their money! The nerve of those protesters.
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 8:54 AM PDT up reply actions
You don’t have to protest with a goal in mind besides, “I want to tell those rich assholes they are jerks.” I think many revolutions happen because people are just upset with the status quo and want change. They don’t know what kind of change they want at the beginning.
by paleodan on Sep 30, 2011 8:55 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Yep. Exactly.
In fact, I think many revolutions turn out pretty terrible.
See: the French Revolution, every revolution in Russia ever.
As a poor asshole right now, I really hoep to be arich one someday
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by TwistNHook on Sep 30, 2011 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
is that worse than being a poor dick?
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by ikoolykedat on Sep 30, 2011 10:41 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m wondering, what would you suggest people should have done? When the rich assholes in government and finance worked together to create an artificial bubble of overvalued shit? Should I have lived in a cave? Wearing a wolf-skin pelt and eating lichen?
Because, you’re right, in that case, I wouldn’t have been affected by the economic downturn. I’d still be sitting on my stalagmite in the dank darkness.
Perhaps the rental market was odd for where they were living. Or just particularly over-valued.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Sure, there are potential problems on either side
It can’t all be blamed on the evil big corporate banks
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Well, it’s a complex problem with a lot of different layers. There is definitely blame to be allocated to people who over-extended themselves. There is blame to be allocated to people who deliberately targeted people who shouldn’t have been approved for mortgages. You can keep going up the chain. What I object to is 1) the complete lack of regulation over investment mechanisms used to repackage debt, 2) the lack of visibility into credit default swaps, and 3) people pretending like they did nothing wrong because their deceptive practices weren’t specifically against the rules.
Also, I suspect that the bulk of the damage wasn’t done by the majority of the people making stupid decisions.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
I think both sides share equal blame. “The people” ARE stupid.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 1:03 PM PDT up reply actions
haha
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 1:46 PM PDT up reply actions
The people ARE stupid, I agree, but the banks with the money are not, and they should have known better. I think there’s plenty of blame to go around, but the so-called “wizards” of finance get slightly more in my book because they were the ones creating all the instruments and hiding all the risk.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 1:08 PM PDT up reply actions
True, but at the same time, on what planet is buying a home on the outskirts of Merced or Temecula for $400,000 with an ARM a good idea?
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions
We can’t ignore Earth 2 forever. It’s out there.
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yup
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions
But the loan can’t be approved if no one applies for it!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions
All I’m saying is that it takes two to make a mind-numbingly stupid financial transaction.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
I think both sides share equal blame. "The people" ARE stupid.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 1:28 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m not sure how long we can continue arguing if we’re saying the exact same thing.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
Goldblooded thinks you should argue until we hit 1000 comments
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by boomtho on Sep 30, 2011 1:31 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
No you don’t!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions
actually, since lunch, i’ve just been trying to watch this on repeat without laughing…it’s been an entertaining work day so far
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At the same time, I think I’m not sure either!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 1:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Back in the day
It was impossible to make a bad home purchase. No matter how bad the loan terms or how unqualified the buyer, prices just kept going up (from 2001 to October 2005) and you could easily sell any house for more than you paid. The thinking at the time was that perhaps the cyclical nature of the real estate cycle was broken and price would go up unendingly. Mortage brokers, real estate brokers and investors were all making lots of $$ and had no reason to expect things to change (unless they were students of history).
How many does it take to make a mind-numbingly stupid medical decision?
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The people ARE stupid
I don’t think they were just stupid. Many were greedy. In a way I totally get it. They saw everyone else getting rich through their homes.
I am also appalled at the bankers who made kazillions. Just as I am with CEOs who make millions while leading their companies down.
But is it okay for Goldman to post a huge profitable quarter AND take in a big bonus?
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Well, sure, but falsifying your application data and imagining that the party is going to go on forever is kinda stupid.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 1:23 PM PDT up reply actions
My thought process is: if I were an average non-exec banker type working for a big company who’s goal was to make lots of money, I’d probably push forth loans on everyone to keep up with the Joneses’ of the industry…shit, everyone else is doing it, right? To not do so, in fact, would look out of place and foolish, and I might lose my job. I wouldn’t think myself “evil,” especially if all this is under the good graces of the government and the people getting the loans seem so super happy to live in Tracy or San Berdoo or whatever. Everything’s gravy.
On the flip side, as a prospective homebuyer, I would never in a million years go after a lot of housing stock at anywhere near the prices they were being offered at with the loans being packaged. Everything smacked of “bubble”, everything smacked of “too good to be true”, everything smacked of “this will end badly” given what these homes were, and where they were. So that’s where I’m coming from.
In the end, I really genuinely think that both “parties” were equally at fault.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 1:25 PM PDT up reply actions
I see mentions of parties and bubbles
IS IT TIME TO POP CHAMPAGNE YET?!
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In an MRI machine.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Can I make a point here?
Its not just people who bought houses outside of their price range and are poor.
Its people who had RIDICULOUS amounts of equity all of a suddena nd everybody was saying “Youd be stupid NOT to use that to make money.”
Well-respected financial people saying “Take the money out of your house and use it to invest or pay for college or osmething.” Then, everything tanks and all of a sudden house values are far lower.
So, now you are underwater. So, its not just a bunch of dumbos who went and bought a house in Merced for 400K, its people all over America who thought they were making prudent financial decisions. Make your money work for you!
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I don’t get this. How is “home prices will rise forever” good advice? My dad was going to buy more property in 2006, then thought twice about it, and didn’t, for reasons that seem so obvious in retrospect…
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 4:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Even if the home prices DONT rise forever, there would still be a lot of equity.
Even if they just stayed flat and never grew at any point, there still would be a lot of equity.
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Even if they just stayed flat and never grew at any poin
I think if this were in anyone’s mind then the safety one using ones’ equity would be a lot more questionable. You are correct, the problem you identify is an unfortunate one, but it stems from the idea the home prices would simply continue rising, making refi a “safe” option. Not the other way around…
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 5:08 PM PDT up reply actions
*one’s
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 5:08 PM PDT up reply actions
That’s not what he’s saying (I think), he talking about people using home equity lines of credit to pay for other things.
Which was a lot cheaper than putting it on a credit card, so it was “good advice”.
And for a lot people, I’m sure this worked just fine.
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doesn’t everything seem obvious in retrospect? There was a place I was sort of interested in in Laguna Beach but they wanted a ridiculous amount of money for it… the real estate agent was sooooo over playing it… I can’t quite remember what the amount were but I remember thinking there is no way in 30 years that multiple could be right.
I mean honestly a lot of shit seemed obvious then, too, but for some reason no one listened to it. Like groupthink on a national scale. Kind of scary, really.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 5:09 PM PDT up reply actions
They may be stupid, but that doesn’t mean its their fault.
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I….don’t think we’ll agree here.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 4:50 PM PDT up reply actions
so the answer was lie on their financial forms to buy a house they couldn’t afford. because everyone else was doing it. naturally.
1) You don’t know that all of those people lied
2) Why didn’t the vendors complete their due diligence?
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
i wasn’t talking about people who didn’t lie. i was speaking specifically about people who did lie.
i actually feel bad for people who tried to buy into the American dream at the height and were slammed. A good example (and I think I posted this before) is the Inland Empire in southern California. Lots of people bought their dream homes there. They could afford them as they were less expensive than if they were in LA or Orange counties. They had long commutes but it was worth it to get this piece of the American dream. Then oil prices took off, the economy tanked and life became very hard.
I do not feel bad for a single person who wants to live in the Inland Empire.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 1:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Fictional account!
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions
Whoops, forgot the dance
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by Rishi on Sep 30, 2011 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
IE is worse!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 1:56 PM PDT up reply actions
lol
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 2:05 PM PDT up reply actions
I specifically mean I-10.
Is it weird how THA 405 is the San Diego Freeway and it doesn’t go to San Diego?
Fack Muck Brown!!
Seriously! Who is paying for the rights to this?!
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During the summer, many conversations kept happening OVER AND OVER AND OVER.
So, the joke was we were un summer reruns.
The “The Freeways” conversation is on like its 8 iteration. So, the joke is that its syndicated on TBS or whatever
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I hate IE. Everyone should switch to FF or Chrome.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
by ragnarok on Sep 30, 2011 1:17 PM PDT up reply actions 4 recs
Fair enough.
I’ve been struck that there’s been a sudden spate of “for sale” signs in our neighborhood, which was largely untouched by the meltdown a couple of years ago. The usual market spike is March – July. It makes me wonder if people have given up waiting for the market to rebound, long term unemployment at white collar level is finally kicking in, or juggling refinances finally failed.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
After a little Googling, you shouldn't blame the consumers
However, according a May 2006 Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) report, finance-related occupations, including accountants, mortgage brokers, and lenders, were the most common suspect occupations associated with reported mortgage fraud2. Perpetrators in these occupations are familiar with the mortgage loan process and therefore know how to exploit vulnerabilities in the system.
http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/mortgage-fraud-2006/2006-mortgage-fraud-report
And just in case that wasn’t enough, the 2010 FBI report finds that
Mortgage fraud perpetrators include licensed/registered and non-licensed/registered mortgage brokers, lenders, appraisers, underwriters, accountants, real estate agents, settlement attorneys, land developers, investors, builders, bank account representatives, and trust account representatives.Notice that homeowners aren’t even listed.
I’ve been relatively unscathed by the downturn for this exact reason. If we’d overextended and bought a house, who knows what would have happened. But instead we’ve been renting.
What I’m getting at, is the downturn has affected everyone. My food expenses are higher. Friends are on long-term unemployment. I have a fine job, but my company is in trouble and there is no opportunity for advancement.
It’s a tough economy out there right now, no doubt.
And it’s frustrating.
I’m just not sure that protesting “Wall Street” and creating an “Us vs Them” mentality (seriously, these are the demands of the OWS movement) is the right way to fix this.
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My food expenses are higher.
Stop eating so much then!
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I see you haven’t met Paleodan! A strong breeze could knock him over, he needs to eat MOAR.
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I’ve met him! Once, he was carrying a trombone. Another time, he was indoors. So, I guess I need to meet him with a strong breeze when he is not carrying a trombone.
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I’ve never thought about this before, but do people start to look like their instruments like they look like their pets?
This theory is dangerous though, since I’m a piano guy . . .
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Not as a pet, but I am sentimentally attached to my first trombone. I got it when I started playing in the fifth grade, which is now 20 years ago. So that trombone and I have been around each other a long time. It holds a lot of memories, even if the sound from a mediocre trombone isn’t very good.
Smile when you say that...
then we can see if your teeth look like piano keys.
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i remember that time you came to 40s and wrestling when i was a newman w/ DSLs and i had to learn all kinds of peoples’ names
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Does DSL mean what I think it means???
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 4:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Are they helpful for playing the trombone or something?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 4:42 PM PDT up reply actions
depends. they can actually get in the way if they’re too big
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TWSS!
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 4:47 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t think so? I met ragnarok at the UC Davis tailgate. But I think you were taking care of AndBearsRagsCub.
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The nice thing about it though was that it was the first time I met any of the commentors here.
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@fiat
I hate this argument, 95% (if not more) the consumers did nothing wrong, and the ones who did over extend themselves should have been stopped by (professional) appraisers & loan officers. It’s the professionals who should be the adults in this situation, and splitting the blame 50/50 just seems wrong to me.
But yeah people were dumb and did:
thought the economic escalator only went one way ā up.
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95% (if not more) the consumers did nothing wrong,
that’s a nonsense #. I’m not talking about people in general, i’m talking about those who had bad loans.
I agree with you they should have been stopped. But in order to say they “should have been stopped” you must be intrinsically saying there were doing something wrong.
I think lost of honest people over extended and lived life too tight. I actually feel bad for those folks. I do not feel bad for people who lied. I do not feel bad for the institutions who lied.
I think that’s all i have on this and will step off now.
Was all of TARP paid back? I don’t remember.
There have also been other ways of dealing with bank issues like this that have seemed to work fine…you need healthy banks for your economy, but bailouts aren’t the only way to make that happen…
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 8:54 AM PDT up reply actions
Healthy banks need regulation because they are structurally important for our economy. So just like you need bridge inspectors, you need banking inspectors. Bailouts are the “oh shit, need massive amounts of ducktape to keep this bridge up!”
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The biggest targets of their protests seem to be Goldman and Chase, both of which not only paid back TARP, but were forced to take it.
Also, Charles Schwab, which did not take it.
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Yeah, I read the comments above, it’s quite the silly little protest.
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 9:01 AM PDT up reply actions
I mean, don’t get me wrong, there are downsides to it too and I do get that banks have an uphill battle to fight PR-wise.
I just kinda wish we could have honest debates without misinformation spreading.
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it goes back to what I mentioned earlier…I’m totally frustrated with the lack of individual research/education with these issues. Do they REALLY know what they are protesting? Do they REALLY know what the issue is?
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Did they? Link? I know they definitely profited from parts of it, but have they profited from it on the whole?
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 9:45 AM PDT up reply actions
TARP Yields $20 Billion Profit, Treasury Says
Also, let’s take note of the huge amount of protestors occupying Detroit, protesting bailouts for GM and Chrysler, the latter of which the govt lost money on
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The GM bailout is a great success story right now, people need to get over it.
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
right, but there are enough people out there annoyed with the GM bailout.
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Right. They were necessary, even if it did end up costing the gov’t money
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Yup agreed all around.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 10:19 AM PDT up reply actions
Well, Ford didn’t have the same problems to begin with, which is why they didn’t need a bailout. In the context of “a company that needed a bailout”, the bailout worked and both GM and Chrysler are doing much better than they were.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e7R3y-qwZ0
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions
yessssssss
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 12:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, but if we didn’t save GM and Chrysler, the entire US auto industry would have been fucked. Now all 3 Detroit auto manufacturers are much healthier and more stable companies.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 10:18 AM PDT up reply actions
and they still make horrible cars.
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 10:19 AM PDT up reply actions
I wouldn’t buy a Chrysler, but I’d definitely buy a Ford, and GM has a couple of vehicles I wouldn’t be completely embarrassed to own.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 10:20 AM PDT up reply actions
i’d drive one if it was a gift
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 10:21 AM PDT up reply actions
Drive one of what?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions
a moped if you know what i mean
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by ikoolykedat on Sep 30, 2011 10:26 AM PDT up reply actions
of those pooey cars
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 10:28 AM PDT up reply actions
Do they? Some of their new cars look nice to me. The problem with the car industry is you really can’t know how quality the cars are until 5+ years down the road. Will they keep their resale value? Will they be reliable and stay out of the shop? You can try to forecast that using historical data, but that only tells you so much.
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 10:22 AM PDT up reply actions
look nice =/= actually nice
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 10:23 AM PDT up reply actions
Obviously. That’s why I talked about resale value and staying out of the shop.
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 10:41 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m only complaining about double standard.
Also, mad props to Ford for weathering this storm better than any other auto manufacturer
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ford figured out the cars they make for the euro market are actually pretty decent and brought them over here.
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
WHERE’S MY FOCUS RSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS, FORD!??!!?!?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions
lol. here it is
Number one fan of Justin Bieber being the number one fan of the Dodgers, and not the [2010 World Series Champion] Giants.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 12:33 PM PDT up reply actions
:*(
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 12:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Alan Mulally (who led the development of the 777 when he was at Boeing) seems like a very competent person.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions
well, good thing he doesn’t have the 787/747-8 to his name
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
OTOH, maybe if he were in charge those projects might have gone a little more smoothly.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions
their anti-semitic founder really knew how to please his customers.
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions
WE NEED MORE TARP! MORE TARP = MORE PROFITS = SOLVE THE DEFICIT
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 10:17 AM PDT up reply actions
At the moment of the crisis, bailouts may very well be the only way to save the economy. But once the crisis has passed, more long-term solutions need to be found. Unfortunately, we don’t seem to have the will to seriously undertake long-term solutions.
Well, it’s not clear whether or not we had to save the banks creditors. With all the credit default swaps out there saving the creditors may have saved the entire global system from collapsing. However, if we could have done less bailing out and more creditor losses without crashing the whole system….it probably would have been better. I don’t have an answer to which one was right, depends on a lot of information I don’t have.
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 9:47 AM PDT up reply actions
Did we have the time to find that happy balance? I’m not trying to be cute, I’m honestly wondering how close we were to a complete meltdown.
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Very close – TARP was the right thing in an emergency situation.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
Probably not to find a perfect balance. Other countries have pursued the other option (basically wiping out the banks, including shareholders/creditors, firing senior management, and starting them anew) in financial crises, before, though. It seems to produce more positive results. However, like I said, there may have been so much owed by the banks that the whole world financial system would have collapsed with that route.
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 9:55 AM PDT up reply actions
yeah. I understand there may have been a better solution if we could have afforded time to analyze the different possible solutions. But it APPEARS TARP was quite essential to preventing a complete collapse. I’d gladly take on more debt to prevent that risk of a global meltdown.
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It appears we need access to the same information Mr. Bernanke had at the time!
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions
Mr. Bernanke was busy playing Fruit Ninja and completing very important business.
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by ikoolykedat on Sep 30, 2011 10:11 AM PDT up reply actions
can carp has tarp?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 10:00 AM PDT up reply actions
dude, that’s like only 6 to 8.
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by ikoolykedat on Sep 30, 2011 10:03 AM PDT up reply actions
nationalisation
Someone’s been reading the Economist!
n.b. -- This comment does not constitute official chemistry advice.
I don’t know how to tell you this, but one never is fully accepted as the real deal on the second passport. Try as I might to assimilate…
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
I agree completely, and would happily take up American arms against hte British (which is why one is never fully accepted on the second passport) but a decade in the adopted country does change some of the default behavior. This does not explain Rishi’s weird insistance on using British spelling, however…
…so you should hate the British and their stupid spelling.
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by atomsareenough on Oct 2, 2011 6:20 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ve taken a poll and they don’t seem to like you much either.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Fair enough. How about the Scots? I like them pretty well.
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by atomsareenough on Oct 2, 2011 10:57 PM PDT up reply actions
So that England-Scotland soccer game over the weekend was really just sort of an intramural scrimmage?
Old Toothwrangler
Sure, they’re technically British, but when people are bitching about “the British”, they generally are referring to the English and not the Scots.
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by atomsareenough on Oct 3, 2011 5:58 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t quite know how to respond. Like any Scottish person who doesn’t live there, I think independence seems like a perfectly reasonable alternative, but you’re describing the mindset of the English, who view “English” and “British” as synonymous.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Such people don’t know what they are bitching about, then. I wouldn’t think you, of all people, would want to be one of them!
Well, it’s not the English Empire, right? It’s the British Empire. But my understanding is that most of the villains in that story weren’t Scottish.
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by atomsareenough on Oct 3, 2011 9:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Sure, give me recommendations!
Seriously though, it’s my understanding that the royal class has been mostly English and Welsh, and that there weren’t very many Scottish Prime Ministers who had a lot to do with India policy. Palmerston and Smith-Stanley weren’t Scottish, for example. Who were the Scottish PMs? Balfour and Bonar Law? Perhaps as DC suggests they were more involved in implementing Imperial policy at a lower level, but were they the main figures?
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by atomsareenough on Oct 4, 2011 10:08 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, we like to blame the English for being the evil overlords – and there’s some merit to that, they did undertake ethnic cleansing in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries, but with the help of the locals.
However, the Scots were front and center in wreaking havoc all around the world on behalf of the empire – whether in the military, colonial administration, missionary work, etc. And when it was imperialism by investment (like in South America), they were up to their necks in it as well.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Nah, it’s okay, because India does cricket better, just like America does English better.
Sadly, the Brits probably do democracy better than either the US or India.
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by atomsareenough on Oct 3, 2011 5:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Sadly, the Brits probably do democracy better than either the US
TAKE THAT BACK
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No. I wonder if maybe the parliamentary system is better than the presidential one, overall.
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by atomsareenough on Oct 4, 2011 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions
The parliamentary system definitely has its positive points, in that leaders can actually get things passed, and a leader who has become widely unpopular can be gotten rid of fairly easily.
But there are also drawbacks. One problem arises if a system is too representative. In other words, the minimum number of votes for a party to get a seat needs to be fairly high, so that only a few parties get seats. If getting just 1% of the vote gets a party 5 or 10 seats, then the parliament is constantly splintered into dozens of parties and the government is always an unstable coalition, resulting in constant turnover in governments.
Britain has the opposite problem. The House of Commons actually has the possibility of being quite undemocratic, because the members are elected by district, not by the percentage of the total number of votes cast (which is done in most European countries). By combining district elections with a parliamentary system, a British party can get a majority of seats in the Commons without getting anything close to a majority of the popular vote. In other words, if the Conservative Party got 51% of the vote in 51% of the districts, and the Labour Party got 90% of the vote in 49% of the districts, the Labour Party would have a lot more votes, but the Conservatives would have the majority in the House, and thus would run the government.
Another problem in parliamentary systems exists when one or two small, extreme parties hold the balance. This can give those parties a vastly disproportionate influence on policy, since their larger coalition partners have to keep them happy to keep the government from falling, and thus the small, extreme parties get their way on things that the overwhelming majority of the public oppose.
Sure, but that’s how Congress works here, right?
And besides, the Presidency isn’t majoritarian either; we still have the electoral college. Gore won the popular vote in 2000, but Bush got the presidency.
I think your point on smaller parties is fair, but I think there’s at least a plausible counter-argument that having the extreme parties there as an outlet for extremist views lets the main parties occupy the center. So, for example, if we had a parliament and an actual Tea Party, then the Republicans wouldn’t have their party taken over by those people and could afford to be a little more centrist.
Also, since as you say, a parliamentary system allows the ruling party to actually govern without the roadblocks that our system has, if the “overwhelming majority of the public” truly opposes something, they can vote in a new ruling party and effectively reverse those policies.
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by atomsareenough on Oct 4, 2011 1:30 PM PDT up reply actions
BOLLOCKS! STUFF AND SHITE! SHAME!!!!!
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On a practical level it is silly to protest against TARP – it did what it was suppose to do, which was stop the bleeding and help stabilize the financial system. However, it was enacted in a moment of crisis, and didn’t lead to any constructive changes in the banking system.
OTOH, I understand why people are upset. The gravest threat to the world economy was created by these Wall Street banks in association with AIG; these are the corporations that get bailedout (whether each one needed it doesn’t matter), they seemingly suffer no pain for getting us in this mess. Meanwhile, millions of people are unemployed, millions of others are foreclosed out of housing, their credit ruined, and the future looks bleak.
Certainly it’s populist rage, but if anything, I’m surprised it’s not stronger.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
The obvious solution to this is to do what I did. Don’t protest. Get hired by a Wall St bank.
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 9:53 AM PDT up reply actions
these are the corporations that get bailedout (whether each one needed it doesnāt matter),
Why does it not matter?
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Because they were party to the mess that caused TARP to necessary. At least that’s how I see things.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
Not getting into that argument, but do you really not differentiate between a firm that desperately needed infusion of government capital and one that didn’t?
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We’re not talking about us, we’re talking about hypothetical dumb angry American!
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions
I think the fact that the financial system got bailed out in a moment of crisis is less what people are angry about. I think they’re angry because they got bailed out, and there was next to ZERO accountability. None of the perpetrators of this mess even really got fired, much less went to jail. In fact they made out quite well for themselves. That’s what people are pissed about.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 10:29 AM PDT up reply actions
Dick Fuld?
James Cayne?
Kerry Killinger?
Any of the AIG guys?
Additionally, all the companies that took TARP, including those that were forced to, had huge restrictions placed on them. Doesn’t sound like “ZERO[sic] accountability” to me.
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Ken Lewis also stepped down from BAC to take an early retirement.
He’s currently enjoying all his platform shoes because it makes him look taller.
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by ikoolykedat on Sep 30, 2011 10:38 AM PDT up reply actions
Those guys got paid huge sums of money to step down. That’s generally not how “getting fired” works for the rest of the world….
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 10:43 AM PDT up reply actions
Those were mostly accrued retirement benefits that were negotiated as part of signing them…
Dick Fuld got $22MM when he was kicked out, but that’s money he earned during his tenure. It wasn’t money they paid him to leave
It happens in sports — Charlie Weis? Mike Shula? Josh McDaniels? All got millions as part of their settlement when they were kicked out. Does that mean they weren’t fired either, according to your definition?
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Do you really not see that to someone who’s been unemployed for years and underwater on their mortgage, a big-bank exec getting a $10 million dollar buyout is not exactly consolation?
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions
I see that
I didn’t think that was the argument here.
atoms is saying no one gets fired. I pointed out that they did. Missing Barry says they got settlements. I pointed that it was accrued.
Fair or not, they are getting fired.
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No, they weren’t getting fired. Lehman and Bear Stearns don’t exist anymore.
If Charlie Weis had engineered the dissolution of the Notre Dame football program, you wouldn’t say “he got fired”.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 12:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Besides, yeah, a few guys got fired. But like, Blankfein… still there. Pandit… still there (and Chuck Prince left before the shit hit the fan with $38M apparently). Ken Lewis retired comfortably. Nobody at any of the ratings agencies went down that I remember. Nothing happened to any of the AIG guys. Many of these people still work in finance. There have been no meaningful consequences for taking these massive risks which have destroyed the economy. And worse, there has not been really meaningful financial reform to stop it from happening again. I think the system is still rigged so that there is massive upside but little downside for taking big risks.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 1:01 PM PDT up reply actions
And worse, there has not been really meaningful financial reform to stop it from happening again
Dodd-Frank?
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Jury’s out on its meaningfulness. From what I read it was pretty watered down, didn’t solve TBTF, etc… Hell, they can’t even get someone confirmed to the CFPB because the GOP doesn’t want it to exist.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 1:11 PM PDT up reply actions
I hope she wins, but I wonder how effective she will be in the senate vs. how effective she could have been at the CFPB.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 1:24 PM PDT up reply actions
At the root of it you’re saying people should not be upset simply because these execs are “fired.” Whether or not the protestors’ arguments have merit, I really don’t think you understand what makes people upset.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 12:51 PM PDT up reply actions
None of the perpetrators of this mess even really got fired, much less went to jail.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 10:29 AM PDT up reply actions
I was merely addressing this. Stop extrapolating from there.
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If you say so.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 1:01 PM PDT up reply actions
How is Zero a (sic)
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lol
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions
Those guys’ firms went under; they didn’t technically get fired or jailed.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, no one got jailed because no one did anything illegal…
People who did (Kweku Adoboli) did go to jail.
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Yeah, nothing illegal happened, just some massive fraud here and there.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 11:07 AM PDT up reply actions
What makes it fraud is that it’s fraud. :)
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 11:19 AM PDT up reply actions
What if I call it fraud?
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Maybe it was fraud after all
Pulling Back the Curtain on Fraud Inquiries
Banks to Pay SEC for Financial Crisis Fraud (this one is about the slap-on-the-wrist fines some firms got afterward)
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 11:29 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, none of that is something that deserves prison time, but okay.
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From the Sorkin article
"They will pick on minor misdemeanors by individual market participants," said David Einhorn, the hedge fund manager who was among the Cassandras before the financial crisis. To Mr. Einhorn, the government is "not willing to take on significant misbehavior by sizable" firms. "But since there have been almost no big prosecutions, thereās very little evidence that it has stopped bad actors from behaving badly."
…But fraud at big corporations surely dwarfs by orders of magnitude the shareholdersā losses of $8 billion that Mr. Holder highlighted. If the government spent half the time trying to ferret out fraud at major companies that it does tracking pump-and-dump schemes, we might have been able to stop the financial crisis, or at least weād have a fighting chance at stopping the next one.
The double standard is the problem.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Apparently not. Evidently, whenever there’s a fraud within a major firm, ignore it and go after the little guys.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 12:09 PM PDT up reply actions
My understanding is the banks basically sued themselves as a class action lawsuit for a trivial amount of money that locks everyone else out of a potential big settlement….
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions
i haven’t been reading about the ubs thing. why was what he did illegal and not just an unauthorized (“rogue” for lack of a better word) trade?
Deposed (and recently graduated!) #1 Indian
the lack of intellectual thought surprises you? to me it perfectly encapsulates the critical thinking ability of these people.
All asians, or just cock-asians?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 12:24 PM PDT up reply actions
wat
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 12:38 PM PDT up reply actions
They speak to my outrage, if not my desire to express my outrage intelligently.
The #1 greatest threat to America: BEARS
You can fool some of the people all of the time, but you fool me twice, you can’t get fooled again. Or something like that.
Sure. Don’t we all aim to become rich one day [question mark] Is that not what the American Dream is about [question mark]
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I’d like to think the American Dream is a little more than just the accumulation of material wealth.
As for me, I wouldn’t mind getting rich but I’m pretty sure it’ll be nowhere near the top 1%.
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I’m ok with dreaming and striving for it.
It’s when people start expecting it where the unrest appears to begin
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I’m assuming that her “feild” isn’t in teaching basic spelling.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Really? Only 40K of debt? Shes luckier than most!
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Dreaming of it shouldn’t come at the expense of actual policies that will help you and people like you to have better lives, instead of policies that may hypothetically help you someday if by some miniscule chance you happen to join the 1%.
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by atomsareenough on Oct 3, 2011 6:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Yes, but at least they don’t make me base my voting behavior on outlandish hypotheticals.
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by atomsareenough on Oct 3, 2011 9:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Joe the Plumber says yes, it does.
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by atomsareenough on Oct 4, 2011 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions
The initially-peaceful crowd included families, children, dogs and bands playing drums, saxophones and banjos.
But was there the Sexy Saxophone?
I support the NBA player's union.
more TL;DR...
…but if you’re interested, I thought this was an interesting discussion/critique of the protest from the left by Mike Konczal, a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 4:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Sorry, try this link instead.
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by atomsareenough on Oct 2, 2011 6:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Read it, wasn’t sure what to make of it. Is it just lack of an actual message?
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Yeah, they’re kind of too idealistic for their own good.
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by atomsareenough on Oct 3, 2011 6:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Say it aint so, Scootster! You’re not “That Girl” are you????
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 7:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Is Scootie’s real name “Sally”?
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Big article on VBall:
Growing up outside of Orlando, Fla., Correy Johnson was determined to play college basketball. A life-long hoopster, she had the athletic chops to become a scholarship player – including a state title on her rĆ©sumĆ© – and had even gone on multiple unofficial recruiting trips.
But with some encouragement from her sister’s now husband, who was a Florida state champion volleyball player himself, and an ultimatum of run cross country or play volleyball from her mother, Johnson picked up volleyball at age 16.
“I first thought volleyball was dumb,” Johnson said of the sport she now loves. “The high school game is so much slower that I first found it boring. But then I started to play club ball, and the game changed because it’s so much faster. That’s when I started loving volleyball.”
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Correy is my fave Cal vball player :)
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions
Field hockey beats St. Joe’s:
Four different Bears scored as the No. 11 California Golden Bear field hockey team opened a three-game weekend road trip in Philadelphia with a 5-2 victory over Saint Joseph’s.
Sophomore Andrea Earle scored her 11th goal of the season less than two minutes into the game, taking a long pass from junior Lauren Livingston and tipping it in past the keeper.
St. Joseph’s tied the game, 1-1, at the 11:32 mark, scoring after a penalty corner. Cal quickly stole the momentum right back with Lara Kruggel scoring 45 seconds later, taking a long shot from just inside the circle to put Cal up 2-1.
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WBB Tip Off Event:
The California Golden Bear women’s basketball team and head coach Lindsay Gottlieb are inviting fans and season ticket holders to the Cal Women’s Basketball Season Tip-Off, a FREE event being held on Sunday, Oct. 2 from 3-5 p.m. at the Hotel Shattuck in Berkeley.
Head coach Lindsay Gottlieb and her staff will introduce the 2011-2012 Cal Women’s Basketball team and preview what is sure to be a very exciting season. The event is designed to be an opportunity for fans, friends, and supporters of Cal Women’s Basketball to come together, meet the team, and sign up to become a member of Triple Threat, the team’s official fan club.
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McCoveyChronicles on end of season press conference:
Things we knew
the pitching is going to get expensive
the Giants aren’t going to chase Albert Pujols or Prince Fielder
Aubrey Huff didn’t spend last offseason participating in triathlons.
Things we didn’t necessarily know
the Giants are legitimately interested in keeping Carlos Beltran
Nate Schierholtz is ostensibly the starting right fielder
The Giants have signed Coco Crisp to a three-year deal with a player option
Well, they didn’t explicitly say that, but, I can read between the lines.
What they said was “Leadoff hitter is a major issue” and “Thereās no center field alternative from within that weāre comfortable with.” The only CF on the market is Crisp.
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Every funny thing Grant from MCcC has said in 2011:
When you constantly rub last year in the face of people who would like to forget it, you are not being a good person. But youāre having so much fun! Keep on keeping on. You could be magnanimous every so often, and do something like link to a video of the last time the Dodgers won the World Series, but thatās only if you really feel bad.
Whoops! That wasnāt a link to a Dodgers World Series video! That was a video of Buster Posey in a parade down Market Street as confetti danced around his boyish, fresh-from-Olympus visage. How could I make that mistake? Oh, man, I hope a Dodger fan didnāt click that link. I was trying to be magnanimous.
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Fresh-from-Olympus? He looks more fresh-from Olympia, WA than fresh-from-Olympus.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 10:33 AM PDT up reply actions
________
Number one fan of Justin Bieber being the number one fan of the Dodgers, and not the [2010 World Series Champion] Giants.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 1:00 PM PDT up reply actions
I lol'd
Number one fan of Justin Bieber being the number one fan of the Dodgers, and not the [2010 World Series Champion] Giants.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 12:57 PM PDT up reply actions
I remember the last time the Giants hit four home runs. High Pockets Kelly had two, Amos Amas had one, and Quacks Mainlodge hit one in the ninth. Christy Mathewson got the win with a complete-game, 189-pitch effort. There was a short delay in the game when they had to invent lights before dusk.
Number one fan of Justin Bieber being the number one fan of the Dodgers, and not the [2010 World Series Champion] Giants.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 1:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Report that BoSox fired Francona:
SI.com’s Jon Heyman is reporting that even after winning a World Series in 2004 and 2007, Francona is out after eight years in Boston. The Red Sox will decline to pick up the option on Francona’s contract.
The decision was apparently made last night and may be announced today. There were differences over how things were handled this season.
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Is this an overreaction? Francona brought them 2 World Series (i.e the first in like 100 years) and consistent success. He hasnt made the playoffs in 2 years despite a staggering payroll AND of course this September.
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Eh, who cares, managers are close to meaningless in baseball. Change for the sake of change. Doesn’t matter one way or another.
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 8:06 AM PDT up reply actions
I dont believe that to be true, but I bet there are a lot of people who disagree with me.
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How can you quantify what a manager does? Most of their job consists of behind the scenes activity managing people?
Perhaps you can try to look at their different line ups etc etc etc, but thats just one (more public) part of their job, really.
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How can you quantify what a manager does? Most of their job consists of behind the scenes activity managing people?
Look at how player performance changes with the manager compared to with another manager.
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 8:21 AM PDT up reply actions
Thats certainly the most simplistic way to do it, but it also takes into account other factors outside of the behind the scenes stuff.
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That’s what sample size is for. Those other factors should regress towards 0. Also, you can control for some of the outside factors like age of a player.
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or that two managers can’t manage the same team at the same time.
they get more than their share of blame/praise, but they do factor into the team’s success and failure. Look at Geren: Beane’s bud, super nice, ex-player, didn’t know how to use a bullpen, and sat Matsui for long periods of time.
Then look at Melvin: strong record of prior experience, articulate, ex-player, Cal grad, knows how to make pen mighty, and played Matsui.
Did the A’s make the playoffs? No, not even close. But Melvin did better than Geren.
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or that two managers canāt manage the same team at the same time.
Why does that matter. In some cases, we do get two managers for the same team in the same year. In many, many other cases, we get players moving teams from one year to the next, or even midyear. There’s plenty of data to compare performance from one manager to the next.
didnāt know how to use a bullpen, and sat Matsui for long periods of time.
As for this, this is somewhat easier to quantify in other ways. When people have run stats on it, it really doesn’t make nearly the difference you’d think. Managers do make bad decisions on those kinds of issues – just look at Bruce Bochy. The impact on total wins, though, is pretty small in all but the most egregious cases.
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http://www.californiagoldenblogs.com/2011/9/30/2459935/dbd-9-30-11-that-awkard-moment-when#comments
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
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It matters to the guy who lost his job.
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Scapegoat.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 10:34 AM PDT up reply actions
Sure, but why not make him a scapegoat?
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 10:44 AM PDT up reply actions
how about a space goat?
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 10:47 AM PDT up reply actions
If the Red Sox somehow owned Cal Football, would they have fired Tedford by now?
I liked Francona (last stop pre-boston was, of course, Oakland) but this could be the case where “the messenger is getting old” not that the message is necessarily wrong.
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Eh, completely different. The coach in college football is ultimately responsible for everything. Not so much in baseball.
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 9:40 AM PDT up reply actions
I didn’t ask to compare CFB HC to MLB managers. I asked what would Red Sox upper management do with Tedford. I think they’d can him like tuna.
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The point is there’s a difference between canning a good CFB coach and a good baseball manager. Huge downside risk with the CFB coach. Very little with the manager.
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 10:45 AM PDT up reply actions
True, and usually you can’t just fire the team, so you fire the manager.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
Yep, more important to keep blame off Carl Crawford so he bounces back then to not scapegoat the manager who’s easily replaceable.
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 11:05 AM PDT up reply actions
I feel like you are underrating a key part of a managers job, which is managing people.
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No, I’m telling you the “managing people” part doesn’t change the results on the field in a very meaningful way.
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 11:20 AM PDT up reply actions
In my extraordinarily limited time working with all the people on the team here at CGB, I’ve seen that working with other people and getting them to be motivated to do their best work can be, at tmies, a very difficult task. I presume managing 25+ millionares from all over the world can be similarly complicated.
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Make me a milionaire, then I’ll let you manage me, then we’ll see how your theory works out. k?
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I wish we could have performance evaluations! Thatd be so much fun.
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I’m here!
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Well, that’s not what I doubt. I just have doubts that MLB managers make much of a difference relative to each other in the wins column.
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions
If you say so!
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Doyers hire new Director of Operations:
The Dodgers on Thursday hired Alex Tamin as Director of Baseball Contracts, Research, and Operations, essentially taking the role of Kim Ng, who left the Dodgers at the end of spring training to become a Senior VP of Baseball Operations with MLB. Tamin has been hired by various MLB teams in the past 15 years for arbitration cases, including working with the Dodgers.
Tamin, who got his law degree from UCLA in 1995, will work with General Manager Ned Colletti on all contract matters, and will be the lead person on all arbitration cases.
Ng famously helped the Dodgers to win their arbitration case with closer Eric Gagne in 2004 after the bespectacled reliever win the National League Cy Young Award the season before. The Dodgers could have another reigning Cy Young winner heading into arbitration this winter in Clayton Kershaw.
The Dodgers haven’t actually gone to an arbitration hearing since 2007, when Ng and the Dodgers won their case against Joe Beimel. But just because a team doesn’t see the inside of an arbitration hearing doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot of work going into it. There is a tremendous amount of research done by both sides even before filing a salary figure, and that work on the Dodgers’ side will now be done in house by Tamin.
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NinersNation tallks Vicks injury:
The latest news on Michael Vick last night was that while he was planning on playing Sunday, he intends to wear a Kevlar glove to protect his bruised right hand. Players use flak jackets at times to protect their ribs, but adding something to one of your hands as a quarterback seems like it could raise some issues in the snap. My understanding is that Vick takes the snap with his left hand on top so it’s not a huge issue. But any chance for fumbles on the center-QB exchange is worth noting for the underdog 49ers.
The other interesting thing to note on Sunday will be how the referees call the game. After Vick injured his hand on Sunday, he had some choice words following the game. Vick later apologized for comments about the officiating, but he made his point clear that he feels refs don’t protect him inside the pocket like they do with other quarterbacks.
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Sil;ver and Black Pride says Raiders will exploit weak NE pass rush:
While the Pats are 10th in rushing yards allowed per game. this is a mirage. Teams simply aren’t running on them often. They have faced the seventh fewest rushing attempts in the NFL at 21.3.
The Patriots are 21st in yards allowed per rush at 4.3 yards per carry.
They have been very solid in run defense when the defense needs to got off the field. With two yards or less to go on third and fourth down they are stopping teams short of the first down on runs 62 percent of the time. This is fourth in the NFL. Power rank 4th at 38 percent.
The Raiders are ninth in the NFL running the ball in these situations. They succeed 73 percent of the time.
This stiff rush defense doesn’t translate to other situations. The Patriots are stopping rushers for zero or less yards 20 percent of the time. This is 18th in the NFL.
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How about that awkward moment when the parents of a friend of your bring up the time you tried to walk through a closed glass door, that happened to be their closed glass door you shattered…
That doesn’t seem like an occurrence strong enough to warrant an all-poster representation
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It was really just adding a new twist to one of the ones Rishi posted.
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 8:14 AM PDT up reply actions
A new twist? AM I BEING REPLACED?!??
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Is this an overreaction? TwistNHook brought them an about.com best college football blog title (i.e the first in like the history of the internet) and consistent success. He hasnt invaded AddictedtoQuack in 2 years despite a staggering lineup of Marshawnthusiasts AND of course this September.
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Last time we invaded ATQ, didnt we lose by 42-3.
Should I have been replaced then?
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That Court’s power is not authorized by the great state of CGB!
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The point is thereās a difference between canning a good Marshawnthusiast and a good Follettariat. Huge downside risk with the Marshawnthusiast. Very little with the Follettariat.
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ManBearCal is PISSED right now
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Sharks beat Canucks, but I think its pre-season:
Plenty of story lines tonight.
First thing first, the Sharks remain undefeated, striking thrice against Vancouver’s Cory Schneider, once on the power play. It was San Jose’s fifth win of the preseason, a streak that means something in some ways but little in others.
The significance lies in the fact that the Sharks have meshed well, which is important considering the amount of changes they made in the off season. Second, the systems all seemed to be working as well as possible; the Sharks were 1 for 4 on the power play, 5 for 5 on the penalty kill and played a tight defensive style that kept Vancouver scoreless throughout the tilt.
“The guys are getting used to each other,” said Sharks’ captain Joe Thornton after the game. “It takes about two weeks, ten days, it was good to see the guys play well.”
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Joe and Marlo: SACK UP BITCHES
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With the NBA down for th count, might go to a Sharks game.
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That awkward moment when you say “Goodbye!” to someone but you both walk off in the same direction.
I do truly hate this.
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This is even worse when you leave the bathroom at the same time and walk in the same direction. What conversation do you have then? “So, everything go okay in there?”
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What's more awkward?
Leaving the bathroom at the same time…or ENTERING the bathroom at the same time when there are only two stalls available and they’re right next to each other?
Do you:
1. Strike up a conversation while on the throne?
2. Stay quiet and hope the rest of your body follows suit?
3. Call someone on your cell?
4. Start playing Fruit Ninja?
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Always start playing Fruit Ninja. Never talk to another man while his pants are down.
And leaving at the same time is only awkward if the other dude didn’t wash his hands.
I hate dudes who try to talk while I’m taking a piss. Talking should not be allowed in a bathroom.
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 8:55 AM PDT up reply actions 6 recs
No talking should be a rule. Especially on cell phones. That’s just creepy. Yesterday, I heard a “gentleman” dictating to his personal assistant on the phone while on the can. I’m not sure if she transcribed all the tooting into her notes.
talking is allowed but only once you’re both at the sink washing your hands. Before that its just awkward.
“Hey Joe, guess what? I have my cock in my hand”
“Gee Steve, thats neat-o. Do you hold it with your right or left hand?”
Yeah, no.
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 9:14 AM PDT up reply actions
It does seem like most guys understand this, the problem is all it takes is 1 out of 10 not to to ruin everything…
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 9:41 AM PDT up reply actions
If I hear someone talking on the phone in the bathroom, I immediately flush the toilet so they get busted, even if I’m mid-business. I’m kind like that.
/breaking my no posting from work rule for this important update
unless…you’re posting from the bathroom!
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by ikoolykedat on Sep 30, 2011 12:21 PM PDT up reply actions
That’s a silent endeavor, though.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 12:21 PM PDT up reply actions
I tend to lol and giggle a lot when I’m reading through the DBDs
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by ikoolykedat on Sep 30, 2011 12:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Many women talk, I have no idea why. Especially women in their 20s find this the perfect time to tell you about that new Salon/Restaurant/Fruit Ninja they just discovered.
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I have often spoken to employer groups about employment law issues. A couple of years ago I spoke at an all-day conference and after I finished my presentation, I spoke with several people who came up to me with questions. But finally I had to tell them that I needed to go to the ladies room. This whole pack of people followed me down the hall, trying to get their last bit of free legal advice as I walked to the bathroom. That was a bit odd, but okay. But then one woman actually followed me into the bathroom and kept shouting wage and hour law questions through the stall door. I had to ask her if she could please wait outside until I came out. I had to promise that I wouldn’t leave without talking to her before she would go away.
My friend is so wanted that they post his photo up at the Post Office, along with nine others!
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this the same friend who got food poisoning from fayala?
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i’m your friend!
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 11:10 AM PDT up reply actions
your face is posted on the wall of the Post Office with 9 others?
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions
Yayy! You consider me a friend!
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I have the death sentence on 12 systems.
by CalBear81 on Sep 30, 2011 10:03 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
wow, unexpected. well-done, CB81.
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once you were the learner. now you are the master.
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions
you need to quote it more incessantly
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 11:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Seriously?? Next thing you’ll tell me is that Battle Shits is actually a real thing.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 10:41 AM PDT up reply actions
I hate public bathrooms… I don’t see how anyone can think they’re not inherently awkward. I do not understand why they don’t have floor to ceiling stalls.
When CalNet and I went to Iceland, I saw the floor to ceiling stalls for the first time. Those Scandinavians really know what they are doing. We should have those in the US.
one of the great downtown secrets is the bathrooms at bloomindales, floor to ceiling stalls and enough muzak to cover up any other noises.
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
That style of stall exists at Schiphol and Edinburgh airports as well. I have not yet embarked on a survey of all European airports to establish a baseline, but it might be a project worth undertaking.
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When I am at expensive restaurants with patrons wearing their hoity-toity clothes and talking about hoity-toity things. If the bathroom is for one person at a time with a locking door, I like to leave the door unlocked. Then, if a hoity-toity person walks in on me doing my thing I act all causal and “hey, what’s up”. They always act so surprised, embarrassed and ashamed as they scurry away apologizing.
I support the NBA player's union.
That is dirty.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 1:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Kyle Orton edition
That awkward moment when your fans pay for a pro-Tebow billboard.
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That awkward moment when you're walking and trying to change the song on your iPod, only to walk right into a pole
Not that that’s ever happened to me…
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Coulda been worse. In HS we used to have a pole in one of our walkways that was crotch high…
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 8:27 AM PDT up reply actions
That awkward moment when you post anything at all ever in the DBD.
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by TwistNHook on Sep 30, 2011 8:20 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
That awkward moment when you meet your internet orthodontist/lawyer/chemist/planner/engineer friends for chicken and waffles and wonder how you got into that mess.
Yabba Dabba Doo! I like talking to you!
That awkward moment when you hear that CGB had another chicken and waffles meet-up that you didn’t get invited to…
by paleodan on Sep 30, 2011 8:49 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
You mean that awkward moment when you realize that you groused about not being invited to the publicly-announced “everyone is welcome” meet-up that was repeated over the course of several DBDs?
Old Toothwrangler
NOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooo
I gave other things on the internet higher priority than the DBD. I am ashamed.
YOU ASS
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions
z
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 10:19 AM PDT up reply actions
in your defense, everything has something to do with paleodan’s ass. and doing jello shots off of his chest
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 10:22 AM PDT up reply actions
Wrong thread. Thats the thread above.
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I’m a busy guy with lots of internets to read.
I expect things like CGB Chicken and Waffles meet-ups to make it on to Facebook or other actually important sites.
YOU ASS
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions
YOU TWIST
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Im only aware of 2. One was publicized in the DBD and open to all. The other was after the spring game at Laney.
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there have been like 6. Obvio they left you out of the loop
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions
I thought Rishi perceived me as his frined?!?!??
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no, Rishi’s only friend is Goldblooded
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 11:52 AM PDT up reply actions
no, i am his only frined.
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 11:54 AM PDT up reply actions
Probably through the front door, like everyone else?
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Hipsters are Batman?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions
Awkward moment
When a friend asks what you think of a woman/girl you both know (without telling he’s now in a relationship with her) and you say unflattering things about her. Then he lets you know.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
Like telling your roommate who just broke up with this awful girl that he’s better off without her, etc…Then having them get engaged shortly thereafter?
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If a friend breaks up with his gf, wait at least three months to talk trash about her.
Otherwise, ya know
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or always change the subject. “So, how about Cal’s goalline offense, eh?”
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Not really a friend. Just the assigned dental school roommate. Weird dude.
I probably let my annoyance with her (not the best houseguest, to put it mildly) get the better of me.
Still, definitely not my smoothest or brightest hour.
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Awkward moment
When the DBD conversation is ranting about a topic you know a lot about but can’t say anything because it would give away your true identity… GOSH, must be easy to be a chef.
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You’re Scott Orson Card?!?!
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YOU BLEW IT
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 11:07 AM PDT up reply actions
I feel like Lendale White at the 2006 NCG!
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awkward moment
when Allison Stokke’s dad calls you on your cell.
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--Coach Clark
I hate that when that happens
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 9:16 AM PDT up reply actions
awkward moment
When you go to the mall and see Kevin Riley and Nate Longshore wearing OSU and UCLA gear, respectively. Riley also has on a Fear The Beav shirt with Tri Delts on the front. Longshore also has on the the “The Monopoly in Los Angeles is Now Over” T-shirt with Slick pointing at something or other.
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at least its not as awkward as Ayoob and Longshore posing for beefcake photos together
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 9:20 AM PDT up reply actions
Is that a real thing that happened? Did they lose a bet or something?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 10:48 AM PDT up reply actions
awkward moment
when your in a meeting and you’re talking shit about the existing deal youre about to re-bid out and then suddenly realize that everyone else in the room was responsible for the shitty deal and they don’t like you very much anymore.
Totes awk.
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Yeah, I’ve learned the hard way not to criticize something that’s imploded until I know for sure who was involved.
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FS: “God Bless! Who negotiated this mess?!?”
crickets chirping in the room as FS looks up to see 9 people staring at him intently.
FS: “Uhhhhh hey everybody, look at the clown outside the window!”
Not my most tactful moment ever.
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions
I finally watched No Country for Old Men…I liked the plot except for the end…what the hell happened? I don’t get it. Does the creep get caught? And what the hell was Tommy Lee Jones talking about? Very odd movie…OVER-RATED
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thats the point. NO ONE KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 9:21 AM PDT up reply actions
huh. I guess I’m not a fan.
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I had the exact same response to the film. I thought it was quite good until the end but the end pissed me off so bad I refused to watch it again to try to figure out the nuances.
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 9:26 AM PDT up reply actions
I had similar feelings about There Will Be Blood.
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 9:42 AM PDT up reply actions
I agree with you there, he’s directed better. But it has it’s moments.
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I liked it visually. I just don’t get the plot.
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions
I watched that movie on an airplane
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
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by Rishi on Sep 30, 2011 9:46 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
no, I was in economy class.
Also, the ending made no sense.
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
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You know what movie could have strongly benefitted from a better ending (which was, in fact, the alternate ending)?
I Am Legend
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Original Ending to I Am Legend
Due to test audience’s dislike of the film’s original ending, several scenes were altered before the film’s release, especially the standoff between Neville and the infected in his laboratory. Visual effects supervisor Janek Sirrs recounts the original ending, starting with the standoff: “At that point, Neville’s ā and the audience’s ā assumptions about the nature of these creatures are shown to be incorrect. We see that they have actually retained some of their humanity. There is a very important moment between the alpha male and Neville. The alpha male slapped his hand on the glass and smeared it revealing a butterfly shaped imprint.”
Neville realizes that the alpha male is identifying the woman he was experimenting on by a butterfly tattoo, and that the alpha male wants her back. Neville puts his gun down and returns the infected woman. Neville and the alpha male then exchange stares; Neville apologizes to them, which the alpha male acknowledges before the infected leave. The final shot follows Neville, Anna, and Ethan as they drive away towards Vermont
Different from the book, but a much better ending than what happened in the theatrical release. Also:
I especially like how Smith glances at his wall of photos and realizes that he must appear to be some sort of serial killer, with photos of his “kills” displayed on his wall. Very cool.
The book involved no bs “survivor’s colony” and Neville was, in fact, the last man on earth. The “I Am Legend” title refers to him being a “legend” to the infected in the same way that vampires are “legends” to us now.
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Actually, glad to finally find out what happened.
I could never get through that movie either. Too sad to see the family split up. :(
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EVEN IF YOU HAVE THESE FEELINGS YOU DO NOT ADMIT TO THEM
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions
EXACTLY YOU SAY THAT YOUR GIRLFRIEND OR WIFE HAD THESE FEELINGS BUT NOT YOU
n.b. -- This comment does not constitute official chemistry advice.
OR TELL THEM ONLY TO GIRLFRIEND OR WIFE IN ORDER TO CONVINCE THEM TO DO SEX TO YOU
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 11:33 AM PDT up reply actions
As the movie was reaching its climax, I was expecting it to end much in the way the book ends (and I’d never read the book). As I was watching, I was reaching the conclusion that Neville reaches in the book, and thought it was a pretty awesome twist.
But, then the movie ended in a much more audience-friendly manner. I haven’t seen the alternate ending, but it sounds like I would’ve enjoyed that much more.
by minesweeper on Sep 30, 2011 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Also, I really hated the idea of there being a survivor’s colony. Makes his whole struggle throughout the movie seem like a waste
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pretty awesome twist.
Thanks! I like you too, minesweeper!
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How about the awkward moment when...
you realize that he had to qualify “twist” with “pretty awesome” so that we wouldn’t mix the two of you up?
Oh 1,000% disagree, great, great movie. A western noir for the ages.
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Is it considered a Noir?
There is no cover-up, no corruption, no seedy underbelly behind a glamorous exterior. I ask because I never truly understood what makes Noir film Noir, other than the typical light-dark shadow interplay.
I support the NBA player's union.
I would consider it so mainly because the plot is driven by the actions of Josh Brolin’s character, and his actions are typical of a Noir protagonist. No unnecessary good deed (bringing the water back, why?) ever goes unpunished.
In a way “The Wild Bunch” has many Noir elements as well, it’s not just about shadows left by venetian blinds .
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I realize Noir is more than shadows, but I always thought a cornerstone was corruption and cover-up. I didn’t see that in No Country for Old Men.
I support the NBA player's union.
I wouldn’t agree that corruption and cover-up is at all necessary, it’s more based the actions of the protagonist, what kind of obstacles he encounters and how he deals with them. For example “Out of the Past” (a great Noir movie) “The Killing”, “Naked City”, “Le Cercle Rouge” “Charley Varrick” “Rififi”, “The Maltese Falcon” (ok some cover-up in this).
To be sure, there are a fair number that do deal with corruption and cover-up, like “Chinatown”, “Double Indemnity” “Where the Sidewalk Ends”, “The Third Man”.
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I only disagree 998%
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HOW DARE YOU DONT BELIEVE ME!
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oh my god carp….just stick to disney
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions
The ending was not about plot
The plot has no resolution, that’s the point. The movie tells us that there is evil in the world, and sometimes bad things happen by pure chance, and sometimes there is nothing we can do about it. You can try to be a good man like Tommy Lee Jones, but even he has to retire at some point, and the world goes on.
Is everyone else’s Blog page not getting the feed on the right? Or is it just mine? And yes, I’m on Internet Explorer ()
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awk moment
when you go in for the kill but your wife gives you the Heisman. Maybe that only applies to me.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
by carp on Sep 30, 2011 9:25 AM PDT reply actions 2 recs
no, I think that applies to all married men 90% of the time
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 9:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Build up steam during the course of the game, don’t just try a hail mary pass in the last minute. May I suggest many sustained drives…
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by AndBears on Sep 30, 2011 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions 4 recs
lol rec’d for vivid metaphor
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 11:31 AM PDT up reply actions
CJ has more girth…
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 11:36 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Dude, stop pretending
She’s answering in-game, you know as well as I do that the real problem is scheduling.
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I wish I had scheduled more D1-AA schools
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 12:03 PM PDT up reply actions
nope, just easy wins
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ve run out of fuel for steam. There’s only so many times you can go to the ol’ reliable (massage w/ lotion) and this dude’s out of tricks. Maybe I’ll finish up that 6-pack and get an epic tan.
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--Coach Clark
I already have an epic tan! I’m halfway there!!
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 1:04 PM PDT up reply actions
…epic? halfway?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 1:11 PM PDT up reply actions
There is no there there.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions
The end of my second sentence is in Oakland?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 1:28 PM PDT up reply actions
LIVIN ON A PRAYER!
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by DC Trojan on Oct 1, 2011 1:40 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
couple of suggestions for you
watch more online porn
transfer the “massage with lotion” from her to yourself
practice “self abuse” while sobbing
Welcome to post children married life!
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 1:06 PM PDT up reply actions
You have to work on your juke moves. Maybe add a spin move to your repertoire also.
n.b. -- This comment does not constitute official chemistry advice.
He needs an inside swim move
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Baby carp sez that Papa Carp’s inside swim move worked just fine.
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by Kodiak on Sep 30, 2011 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
HIYO!
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mrs. carp just pulled the goalie again and imma take it top shelf!
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just dont put it in the wrong net
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 1:07 PM PDT up reply actions
his boys can swim!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions
lol!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 12:43 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m secretly rooting for the Fuskies from here on out.
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I’m secretly rooting for my second favourite team from here on out: Whoever is playing stanfurd
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what if it’s FUCLA
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--Coach Clark
Is this even a question?
I’ll root for fUCLA WAYYYYYYYYY ahead of furd
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then we’re all Harsha for a day
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
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I’m Harsha
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That is awkward.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 10:50 AM PDT up reply actions
Fuck that
The Fuskies can never win a game for the rest of eternity for all I care
In other words, Go Bears!
Awkward Moments
You are at your friend’s house waiting for him to finish his homework before you go out to play. In an attempt to amuse yourself while passing the time you draw smiley faces on each of your index fingers and attempt to annoy and distract your friend by having them start talking to one another. The finger-puppet play turns sexual, and one finger puppet begins to bang the other from behind resulting in very audible moans, right as your friend’s grandmother walks up behind you.
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by chowder on Sep 30, 2011 9:30 AM PDT reply actions 4 recs
That one definitely has universal appeal.
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 9:43 AM PDT up reply actions
http://calfootballblog.com/2011/09/30/so-what-now-quarterback-tailbacks/
From a neutral standpoint, Zachās stats are decent. However, Zach is only 19/46, or 41.3%, on completions and a PER of 106.9 on 1st downs while his 3rd down stats are 24/45, or 53.5%, on completions and a PER of 166.51. It is either Zachās confidence increases as he continues to throw (even without success) or that Tedford is making the wrong calls on first down. There could be arguments for both, but seeing that Zachās PER decreases from about a PER of 173.76 in the 1st quarters to a PER of 76.13 in the 4th quarters, Iām going to lean towards the latter.
I never considered that Tedford’s calls on 3rd down > Tedford’s calls on 1st down. I think it’s more likely that Zach steps up a bit more. His completion % could be even higher, as I remember several catchable 3rd down drops.
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Never discount the possibility of random variation…
by Missing Barry on Sep 30, 2011 9:44 AM PDT up reply actions
sorry, we just had one. please wait another 6 months.
or, how about next Thursday? Anything going on then?
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
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Thursdays not so good, returning for client site… anyone up for Mondays? :D
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Yeah, you fail, let me know when you figure out why.
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
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Thursday is the effing Oregon game, why the hell are you going to be at a client site instead of at a bar, getting drunk and watching the game? Seriously, give me you Cal fandom card right now.
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because i have so much control over where/when i have to be.
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FRIDAY FRIDAY
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 10:07 AM PDT up reply actions
but seriously, what are people in SF planning to do for Oregon game viewing next week?
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
I was thinking of marina-ing it up and going to The Republic. I believe the owner is a Cal Alum
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
pete’s would probably work as well, but i’m meeting up with some people in brotastic doucheland
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
but think of all the beer calories? mba apps don’t burn them off.
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
I would be up for The Republic. I could walk there if I got my act together in time (ie 15 minutes pre game).
Something more convenient from south of SF might induce me to show up. So, that probably means you guys will for sure pick The Republic :)
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 4:23 PM PDT up reply actions
many convenient muni lines, and specials for teh game at the republic
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-TwistNHook
Seriously. If one were to CalTrain from down south, one could take the 45 bus from the train station and be dropped off literally two blocks from The Republic. And I think one could also pick up the 30 and be dropped off ONE block from The Republic. Same for BART.
Good point.
…and then after the game I could take the bus back to BART/caltrain, ride back down to millbrae, get in my car, and drive back across the bridge to the East Bay. I’d probably make it home by midnight.
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by atomsareenough on Oct 2, 2011 9:32 AM PDT up reply actions
I’m going to ask sec119 to watch it with me. None of the rest of you may come to the party!
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Only if you write it on a note! “Dear sec119, will you watch this game with me, either in WC or in Berkeley? Please circle yes or no.”
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You want Twist to watch a game with you in the WC? Are you one of the dudes that Missing Barry is talking about??
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 4:07 PM PDT up reply actions
OK, you are invited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ain’t no party like a Twist party?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 5:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Ain’t no party like a TwistNHook party, cause a TwistNHook party is awk.
by paleodan on Sep 30, 2011 5:45 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Toads awk!
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 11:52 PM PDT up reply actions
lol
Cal football e-mailed with info about the upcoming Pac-12 Championship Game.
How relevant!
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I was tempted to reply to send with ‘lol wut?’
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
I can only imagine what Oregon State fans are thinking after receiving their version of that email…
by minesweeper on Sep 30, 2011 12:34 PM PDT up reply actions
great success
shave soap + whiskey!!
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Hey, I’m gonna try wet shaving tonight. Do the nicks disappear overnight or what?
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depends on your skin. you’re using that weird ebay razor, right? it’s a cartridge thing so i think you’ll be fine.
it’s when you go for a de blade that the bleeding adventure begins.
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-TwistNHook
LOL
Just got the following e-mail from Cal ATO:
Should Cal win the North Division and finish with a better Conference record than the South Division Champion, the Game will be played at AT&T Park. The 2011 Pac-12 Football Championship Game will be played on December 2, 2011 and will be broadcast on FOX. Kickoff is scheduled for 5:00 P.M. PST. For more information about the 2011 Pac-12 Football Championship Game, please visit Pac-12.org/fcg and be sure to follow the conversation on Twitter (#pac12fcg).
I think Rishi wins this one.
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by ikoolykedat on Sep 30, 2011 10:12 AM PDT up reply actions
Awkward Moment
when you’re driving your team down the field for the winning touchdown and you throw an interception to lose your school’s rivalry game on your home turf.
by daveman on Sep 30, 2011 10:21 AM PDT reply actions 7 recs
That awkward moment when your team is going for a game winning touchdown and you call a pass play instead of relying on the RB who has kept you in the game.
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With no time outs remaining, they couldnt risk a run, IIRC
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IT IS AFTER WE STUFF THEM 2 TIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Gerhart had been doing all the heavy lifting that game and even on that drive. Come on.
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Hes no Shane Vereen!
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Or how about
When you’re arguably the most recognized athlete on the planet, your “alma mater” names you an honorary captain for its rivalry home game, you get inducted into your school’s hall of fame at half time (even though you never graduated) and you get booed by the fans.
Awkward.
by daveman on Sep 30, 2011 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
He must be looking at the Cal section.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions
tiger may be linked to this
Stanfurd sexual assualts rise
The Stanford University Department of Public Safety, a multi-service agency providing law enforcement, security, safety, crime prevention and emergency services on campus 24 hours a day, has released its latest Safety and Security Report, detailing reports of sexual assaults on campus.
According to this latest report, which represents statistics from calendar year 2010, reports of such attacks increased 75% over the number of reported sex assaults in 2009.
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Winner
Keeping January 2 open. You know, just in case.
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by ikoolykedat on Sep 30, 2011 10:26 AM PDT up reply actions
When you and your brother do a dolphin dance on the sidelines
someone help me out here
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Practice? We talkin' about practice?
"You canāt peak too soon," Tedford said. "You start getting amped up right now ā you canāt stay amped up for a week. Theyāll take a little time off and rest and recover and then come back and really be focused on what weāre doing in practice. You really have to build up to the game."
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Awkward Moment
When you are playing the final game in your school’s historic stadium before it is gutted and renovated and you are winning 13-10 and you have held your opponent on 2nd and 3rd and goal from the 1 yd-line and on 4th and goal from the 1 yd line with 0:02 seconds left, the opposing team scores a touchdown to win 16-10 and you are eliminated from bowl contention. Immediately afterwards, Chariots of Fire starts playing with a historic retrospective of your stadium’s history plays on the big screen.
by daveman on Sep 30, 2011 10:34 AM PDT reply actions 2 recs
Maybe the reason Stanford doesn’t have any fans is because you’re all so good at tormenting yourselves.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
FLAGGED
It’s “stanfurd”. Have you learned nothing in your ten years here at CGB?@!
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Hey guys, just got a great idea for a DBD! How to be a Cal fan! Covers topics like spelling ‘stanfurd’ and ‘dealing with crushed hopes and dreams’.
Goldblooded? You have the advantage, being a long-term cal fan. Go.
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alright. I’ll work on a post for a DBD.
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 11:01 AM PDT up reply actions
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions
was he giggling?!
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 11:08 AM PDT up reply actions
BURN HIM AT THE STAKE
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 11:13 AM PDT up reply actions
Me too! We were all together that fateful day. It was like the forces of destiny had htrown us together.
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The day I was introduced to the wonders of watching a Cal game with Twist!
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Have you recovered?
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You have a lot to look forward to!
Like desperately ignoring Twist while Cal football has a 4th and one on the goal line to win the game.
I didnt watch the Washington game with you???
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Well, no, but I’m sure that situation has already happened in our EIGHT SEASONS of watching Cal games together.
I honestly cant remember a situation where Cal had the 4th and 1 on the goal.
UW did last year. I presume I was making noise to try to stop them and not babbling incessently.
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Also, weve been watching games together since the late 2nd millenia if you want to be more precise
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Twist, you are a grave disappointment to me. I was expecting extended commentary from you on my Brick Morse post about the various mustaches in evidence, and also about the style and tailoring of the suits worn by the 1895 Cal Glee Club. But nary a word.
Actually, Im just a really bad ditch digger!
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Oregon state 2007?
Number one fan of Justin Bieber being the number one fan of the Dodgers, and not the [2010 World Series Champion] Giants.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 5:11 PM PDT up reply actions
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roy, this is exceedingly polite for you. are you feeling ok?
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
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… you misspell “awkward” in the DBD headline
by the federer express on Sep 30, 2011 11:11 AM PDT reply actions 2 recs
15-Love
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by ikoolykedat on Sep 30, 2011 11:12 AM PDT up reply actions
How awkward!
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…when you spill cold coffee over your desk and papers..
by the federer express on Sep 30, 2011 11:13 AM PDT reply actions
i asked you if you wanted a cold drink and you said you wanted coffee!
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 11:14 AM PDT up reply actions
great episode, btw. I’m really, really impressed with how the writers haven’t missed a beat since Michael left!
by the federer express on Sep 30, 2011 11:14 AM PDT up reply actions
That episode was a slight improvement. Still too emotional. Dwight is stil mostly doing all the work. Its better tahn Whitney. Thats all Ill say.
Community=great
That might have been the best Parks and Rec yet. The more Aziz, the better! Love Detlef Shremp! Love Ron Swanson.
Sunny was really good, too. I thought they had Frank go a little too much on the “Im not a child molester” thing, but it was good overall. Dee did well.
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that episode actually gave me hope for this season. was nowhere near as bad as the sapfest last week.
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 11:17 AM PDT up reply actions
YOUR NOWHERE NEAR AS BAD AS THE SAPFEST LAST WEEK
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WHOSE NOWHERE NEAR AS BAD AS THE SAPFEST LAST WEEK?!
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions
15-15, bro
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by ikoolykedat on Sep 30, 2011 11:19 AM PDT up reply actions
Please stop yelling at the chair ump.
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by ikoolykedat on Sep 30, 2011 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions
“If I could, I’d take this ******* ball and shove it down your ******* throat”
by the federer express on Sep 30, 2011 11:24 AM PDT up reply actions
“If you ever see me walking down the hall, look the other way, because you’re out of control. You’re out of control. You’re totally out of control, you’re a hater, and you’re unattractive inside. "
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by ikoolykedat on Sep 30, 2011 11:27 AM PDT up reply actions
you’re good, but not that good. i don’t want to have your baby yet. djokovic on the other hand….SWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON
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by ikoolykedat on Sep 30, 2011 11:34 AM PDT up reply actions
MLB Playoffs Rooting
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Rishi, do you have friends posting on that website?
That awkward moment when your friends facebook wasnāt hacked, he just really loves penis
there’s no limit to the number of times we can make fun of you for that.
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NEVER FORGET
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by GoldBlooded on Sep 30, 2011 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Also
That wasn’t an awkward moment at all. It was a hilarious and revealing moment.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 12:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Archer last night was awesome
Lana. LANA! LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Dungeon Us crab!
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haha
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 12:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Awkward
When you open up the DBD and half the comments are about banks, TARP and Auto bailouts.
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Yeah. It’s been an interesting/good discussion. Like, everybody is discussing in good faith or something. Bizarre.
That’s like when I open up the DBD and it’s all about shaving supplies.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 1:05 PM PDT up reply actions
i totally nailed my shave last night.
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
actually my results are just good, not great. better than a disposable, though. need some more practice. MUCH better than my experiments with a straight edge razor.
i’ve been using the DE since May, I probably get just as good results from a disposable, this is just more fun.
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
I’ve been resting my skin this week…Thinking about trying the DE with a new blade (astra or personna) tonight before Mrs. Kod’s reunion dinner.
Then again, might be safer to wait until tomorrow in case I end up looking like Freddy Kruger.
Old Toothwrangler
no sacrifice, no victory.
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
With the grain + cross-grain = decent shaves, but not as good as my wet/dry panasonic.
Against the grain = great shave…but inevitable bluidy mess.
But, I’ve only tried crystal and derby. Big difference with Astra/Persona?
Old Toothwrangler
depends on your skin, for me the astra/personna were much smoother and comfortable.
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
i assume you’re not trying to get all the hair at once… i typically do with grain + cross-grain + against grain… excellent shave and not much mess.
Yep. I’ve been doing with grain/cross/cross/against.
I’m usually fine until I go against. But, if I don’t go against, it’s not a better shave than my electric.
Coarse hair + sensitive skin = issues. I’m hoping that better blades are the answer.
Old Toothwrangler
How often do you have to shave, Kod?
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I could probably get away with every other day…if it weren’t for the fact that I have to hover over people all day and I like to present a well-groomed appearance.
So, I’ll shave every morning during the week and usually take the weekend off to let my skin recover.
Old Toothwrangler
I have to hover over people all day
My first two thoughts were:
1. OMG HE’S A WITCH KILL HIM WITH FIRE!!!
2. Hmmm, I wonder if he has to constantly check to make sure his nose is clear of boogers…
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 5:20 PM PDT up reply actions
…why at night?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions
Because I can. Don’t have a fast growing beard. Can take my time and not feel rushed.
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
too bad it’s not easy for me to lose weight like it is with you people.
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Thnaksgiving is coming up!
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Who shaves at night?!?!
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i also wear my sunglasses at night.
deal with it.
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Ironically, no .gif with that one.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions
nah, that’s just lazy.
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
To be fair, the other half is about defecating and having sex with wives.
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I think the high likelihood of being barred from future sex would make the one-time efficiency less appealing.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
I admit that the “hump and dump” does sound like the sort of thing that a maladjusted teenager would post on Urban Dictionary, but I never claimed to bring class to this joint.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
by DC Trojan on Sep 30, 2011 1:31 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
dude, get it right. Its not “hump and dump”, its the “7 pump dump”.
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions
You know what else is busted?
YOUR MOM
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions
So, whatcha gonna do about it? Hmmm....?
I’d really like to know.
At home my Z key has been busted for like 3 months, now.
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Better than when its about Cal football????!!!
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Cheapest places to live in America
Why am I not surprised they are all complete shitholes?
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Austin comes in at No. 9. Despite Mack Brown living there, I would not call Austin a “complete shithole”.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
I was only looking at the top 5
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions
….Columbus #1???
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Brownville TX is #1 which, despite the proximity of South Padre Island, totally and completely sucks in general.
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 1:28 PM PDT up reply actions
I was guessing in advance!
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions
This metro area, which includes Harlingen and San Benito, is at the southwestern tip of the Lone Star State, hard against the Mexican border. The Gulf of Mexico and the popular beaches of South Padre Island are just a stoneās throw away. Rents in Brownsville average $659, more than four times cheaper than New York, the most expensive city in our annual rankings, where rents average $2,778. Utilities can be pricey, but costs for groceries and other consumer goods are exceptionally low. An affordable South Texas alternative to Brownsville is the McAllen metro area, just an hourās drive away along the Rio Grande.
No thanks.
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Maybe the metro area is just REALLY turned on by the Mexican border.
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Ugh, McAllen sucks balls too.
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions
“Oooh look at how cheap the houses are!”
pause
“Daaaaaaaaaamn look at how low the average salaries are!’
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
yeah, thats the tradeoff. Austin is listed as being a really cheap place to live. True in many respects but salaries are smallish comparatively and if you make 6 figures here, you live like a king.
Then you look at the Texas cities listed on that list. Brownsville, Ft Hood, Sherman (?!?!). Fuck ALL those places, they are shitty with no jobs and little in entertainment opportunities.
I’m kind of surprised that Houston wasn’t #1. I’d always heard that the combo of high salaries and low cost of living made it the #1 bang for your buck city in the US. Lord knows, the oil companies down there pay CRAZY money. The tradeoff is having to live in Houston of course.
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 1:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Are salaries even in the tech sector low in Austin? FB and Dell are there right?
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Tech salaries aren’t too bad, that’s going to be the best money available. That said, Dell is a sweat shop and I would never, ever work for those fuckers. Freescale is circling the drain. AMD is…well, AMD. Apple is growing like crazy though and I heard FB was shifting a lot of their operations here.
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 1:41 PM PDT up reply actions
The tradeoff is having to live in Houston of course.
…and not having a soul.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Did he work for an oil company?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 2:12 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah……
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 4:54 PM PDT up reply actions
uh, ok. If living on the edge of a huge military base in the middle of nowhere and going to Waco is a cool night on the town…I agree.
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions
I know nothing about the city, just that their median salary isn’t bad.
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ah, I misunderstood your post, sounded like you had been there and thought it was a nice place.
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 1:42 PM PDT up reply actions
Are there good drinking opportunities in that city?
If not, I likely have not been.
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its a military base so I’m sure there are plenty of dive bars around. Killeen/ Ft Hood is boring as hell though
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 2:07 PM PDT up reply actions
don’t forget about the hookers and blow
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
…and meth!
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 2:12 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s not that good either.
I get the argument for living in a smaller city somewhere – not least that you can afford to go to more cosmopolitan places on vacation etc.
But some of these places… you’ve got to be kidding. That list included, as a selling point for Waco, that 20% of the population is college educated. Half the people in my little suburban area have advanced degrees, I don’t want to hobnob with the scruff in Waco. And, if Zillow is to be believed, the median household income is more than double Ft Hood… of course the housing prices are three times higher.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
as a selling point for Waco, that 20% of the population is college educated.
I’m guessing the vast majority of the 20% went to Baylor. Thats not exactly “education” in my humble opinion. Plus, its Waco. Waco really SUCKS. No dancing on campus!
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions
No dancing on campus!
What, is the campus in Afghanistan or something?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 2:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Almost, they’re Baptists! That “no dancing on campus” rule always killed me.
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions
Also, I thought Baylor was supposed to be pretty decent academically.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 2:14 PM PDT up reply actions
I think they have a pretty good marketing department oddly enough (not something I would naturally associate with Baylor) and I believe they have a decent music program but I wouldn’t put them all that close to a Texas or even a TAMU.
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 2:27 PM PDT up reply actions
FOR NOW…THE FIRST ROUND OF RAIN WILL
APPROACH THE NORTH BAY MONDAY MORNING AND TRAVEL SOUTH THROUGH THE
REGION DURING THE DAY. THE ENTIRE REGION SHOULD SEE PRECIPITATION
BY MONDAY NIGHT. TUESDAY WILL SEE MOSTLY DRY CONDITIONS…WITH
OCCASIONAL LINGERING SHOWERS IN THE AREA. THE BIG DAY NEXT WEEK
LOOKS TO BE WEDNESDAY…AS BOTH THE GFS AND ECMWF SHOW THE
GREATEST ACCUMULATION OF PRECIP…COLDER TEMPERATURES…AND POSSIBLE
STRONG WINDS.
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We are no. 17 in nation in punting, how the heck did that happen?
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if you watched the BYU game last night you saw that… and you saw some terrible end of the game defense. and a terrible blatant missed holding call by the ref that would have given Utah State a safety, stopped BYU’s last drive before it started.
I feel for Utah State though. They’ve lost some heartbreakers this season.
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by atomsareenough on Oct 1, 2011 9:18 AM PDT up reply actions
Because...
Bryan Anger has averaged 50.1 yards per punt since the Fresno State game. His overall average is 44.27 ypp.
Keeping January 2 open. You know, just in case.
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BRINGING A MUCH COOLER AIR MASS TO THE AREA AND A SHOWERY PATTERN
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. VERY COLD 500 MB TEMPERATURES MAY
ALLOW ENOUGH INSTABILITY FOR ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS DURING THIS
PERIOD. ALSO SNOW LEVELS ARE EXPECTED TO LOWER TO 5500 TO 6500
FEET DURING THIS PERIOD.LATE IN THE WEEK…THERE IS BROAD AGREEMENT IN THE MODELS SHOWING
A RIDGE BUILDING OVER THE PACNW WITH GRADUAL WARMING THURSDAY AND
FRIDAY AND MAINLY DRY WEATHER.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 4:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Follow-up from Last Week's Discussion on Oil / Gas Prices
Crude Oil Prices Cap Worst Quarter Since 2008 With Drop to One-Year Low
With the dollar continuing to strengthen this is good news for those us living in the US.
So last week gas prices were $3.75 / gallon for unleaded in Huntington Beach, CA. This week it’s at $3.65. 10 cents in one week is pretty good. If crude holds at these prices I’m guess it will be down at least $.50 in the coming month.
Cruzin, you reports it was at $3.89 where you were last week. Where is it now?
what kind of delay is there between crude oil prices dropping and price at the pump? there’s got to be some delay because of negotiated contracts, advanced purchase, existing supply, etc etc
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there should be about a 7 day delay to take into account gas futures. But as Harsha wrote, it’s amazing how closely pump prices follow crude on the way up, but not so much on the way down.
Also, retailers usually hold prices steady on Friday for the weekend so you’ll see a bigger drop on Monday. That is unless a price war breaks out. As we discussed a few weeks ago re gold… falling price momentum can be a lot of fun.
Ugh more price wars? Why can’t we all make price love, not price war?
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I like Cupcake Wars, really. Thats my favorite KIND ofwar!
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So...
Is that like, when UC Davis plays San Jose State?
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by atomsareenough on Oct 1, 2011 10:19 AM PDT up reply actions
its $3.25 here in Austin down from $3.70 at tis worst
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by Fire Starkey on Sep 30, 2011 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Do you live/work in HB?
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions
haven’t we discussed this? I get confused… didn’t you go to Oceanview High or something?
I sold my house earlier this year so have been “basing” in Huntington Beach at a friend’s who for the most part has been gone. I wouldn’t say I “live” in HB. Although I really like HB.
Ahh, yeah. Your memory is clearly better than mine :)
I thought you lived in like, Laguna or something though, but maybe that’s the place you sold. HB’s pretty nice, though I can’t say I miss it all that much.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 2:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Uh-oh,ready "z" key... fiatlux photo...
I had a house above Sunset Plaza and a small apartment complex in Laguna Beach where I kept an apartment.
I miss the house very very very much, but the timing was right, but man i miss the views and the sunsets and the…
"
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I thought you guys just ate doughnuts
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By the time they figure out what went wrong, we’ll be sitting on a beach earning 20 percent.
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Only John could drive somebody that crazy.
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by sec119 on Sep 30, 2011 4:39 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Psst Paleodan…
I think you need to brush up on your classics. Of course, it’s Die Hard. Sprechten ze talk?
Old Toothwrangler
Pulp Fiction and The Fifth Element are sorta cult classics…
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 5:27 PM PDT up reply actions
WHAT?! Die Hard is a classic. I dare you to name another movie from the 80s, THAT’S RIGHT YOU CAN’T
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Wall Street
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 11:52 PM PDT up reply actions
No, but there was a lot of oedipal confusion.
by paleodan on Oct 1, 2011 11:46 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
and the…..Hydrogen bomb testing?
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 4:58 PM PDT up reply actions
beautiful sunsets, which are caused by the significant air pollution which increases light scattering?
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good news for those us living in the US.
Come back home LeonPowe!
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I’m in day 10 of my new job. Totes awk.
But I work an American company making money from Chinese consumers. So there’s that!
Sorry I was on a media tour on Friday, last I checked they were 3.79 for most places, which meant 3.99 for me :(
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you got to track one station… that’s the only way you’ll be able to see and recognize the trend.
Huntington Beach down another 2 cents today.
Life is Strange
I was in a fraternity with a bunch of football players for two rocky quarters at the University of Washington. It was a football house, but I got along with them really well. A great player named Chico Fraley asked me, “Why don’t you try out for football?” And I thought, “Ah, yes, I do want to die.” But that’s what I did. I walked on.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
He initially went to UW for crew, but couldnt handle it. UW has a great crew tradition as we all know from ClaBear81s posts. So, he moved over to football.
He never got much playing time, but his favorite times were doing skits at the end of year banquet.
I suggest you listen to his interview with Nerdist
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Hey Farva, what’s that place you like with the buffalo wings and all the goofy shit on the walls?
Fack Muck Brown!!
party rock anthem will never be the same:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJNBfBr-OGU
(I think I spotted LeonPowe at one point)
Then, Iāll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
wow
I feel bad laughing at stuff about North Korea because the situation is so fubar but this really made me laugh: “Ain’t no party like aļ»æ Pyongyang party, ’cause a Pyongyang party is ABSOLUTELY MANDATORY”
Fack Muck Brown!!
I feel like I’ve heard Twist use that line before…
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 4:21 PM PDT up reply actions
i should take the party to bosnia
and slap the shit out of this douchebag.
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/09/30/2011093000461.html
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s grandson Han-sol has enrolled in the United World College in Mostar in Bosnia, a local newspaper reported Wednesday. UWCiM is an international school established in 2006 “with an explicit aim to contribute to the reconstruction of a post-conflict society.”
I hella like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_M5-qthA8w
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 5:01 PM PDT up reply actions
On the phone with India right now
Trying to take some assessments for a new job and the titles of them are not hyperlinked as they should be. The troubleshooting method suggested was close Firefox and check for system updates.
This is a nightmare. Not enough India in this DBD so I figured I’d just throw that out there.
I don’t think Roger and Linda are their real names.
Fack Muck Brown!!
Not enough India in this DBD
That thought occurs to me like every damn day.
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 4:33 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t think I have ever thought this, ever.
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...
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by atomsareenough on Sep 30, 2011 4:36 PM PDT up reply actions
atoms having to point out someone atoms’d?! it’s like we’re at the nexus of the universe!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Sep 30, 2011 5:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Doing my part for the economy
That’s right, I’m bringing it iPad style to the DBD. I have been left in the corner to play with my new gadget and it’s not bad at all…
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
iPad made with 100% American components:
Number one fan of Justin Bieber being the number one fan of the Dodgers, and not the [2010 World Series Champion] Giants.
So now we know what the second website you’ll visit on a new internet device is.
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Just saw Kumail Nanjian. Was xecellent. Discuss.
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It is of my personal opinion
That Moneyball is the greatest baseball movie ever made.
Both Hill and Pitt deserve Oscars.
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No joke.
I am deadly serious. This film deserves Oscars.
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