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In decades past, when I was as often between “relationships” as in one, I volunteered to work holidays. The coworkers with kids had much more invested in the celebrations than I ever did.
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So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.
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In decades past, when I was as often between “relationships” as in one, I volunteered to work holidays. The coworkers with kids had much more invested in the celebrations than I ever did.
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I thought you were a Star Trek fan. Have we learned nothing from Lieutenant Valeris: "400 years ago on the planet Earth, workers who felt their livelihood threatened by automation flung their wooden shoes called sabots into the machines to stop them. Hence the word 'sabotage'."
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You get to watch a great movie. A movie so good, that other people are willing to leave their house on Christmas Eve, in order to enjoy it.
And you get to eat popcorn.
What is screening on Christmas Eve?
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Google Lens is useless. Highlight The King of Pop. No results found.
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How near to reality was Home Improvement's Family Taylor?
Were they kind of prototipical Boomer-generation?
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Like pretty much all situation comedies, Married, With Children excepted, the family is highly idealized. If there are issues, some plot point, they are usually minor. Conflict is resolved to the satisfaction of all.
So, to answer your question, how close to reality - not close at all!
Indeed, Married, With Children, is often viewed as a closer, if also exaggerated, version of reality!
So, to answer your question, how close to reality - not close at all!
Indeed, Married, With Children, is often viewed as a closer, if also exaggerated, version of reality!
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We're showing "Don't Look Up," which I suppose is the most inappropriate Christmas Eve movie ever.
I used to not mind working Christmas Eve or Christmas night, but having had only one actual day off in over two and a half months, I was kind of hoping for the extra rest this year.
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If I decide to drop by, can you save me a seat? Or will I have to cram into the little projector room?
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I was treated to an advertisement, on this very site, for a gizmo designed to cover the catalytic converter on your automobile and thereby thwart its theft.
Two people of my acquaintance have been so victimized — the fellow just two doors down (I keep our car in the garage), and a nephew living in Tacoma.
I don’t know what kind of money the thieves are getting for those stolen catalytic converters, or who is buying them. But I read that there’s been a rash of such thefts all over the country, fueled by the steep rise in prices for the precious metals in the things.
I would have made a lousy thief. I just can’t imagine getting enough for a catalytic converter to make it worth the effort and risk. (John Law wouldn’t dissuade me nearly so much as a burly and/or armed car owner catching me in the act.) And besides, it’s such a low thing to do. The above-mentioned nephew can’t really afford the loss, and the neighbor ain’t exactly living the high life either. But thieves apparently don’t care what hardships they impose.
Two people of my acquaintance have been so victimized — the fellow just two doors down (I keep our car in the garage), and a nephew living in Tacoma.
I don’t know what kind of money the thieves are getting for those stolen catalytic converters, or who is buying them. But I read that there’s been a rash of such thefts all over the country, fueled by the steep rise in prices for the precious metals in the things.
I would have made a lousy thief. I just can’t imagine getting enough for a catalytic converter to make it worth the effort and risk. (John Law wouldn’t dissuade me nearly so much as a burly and/or armed car owner catching me in the act.) And besides, it’s such a low thing to do. The above-mentioned nephew can’t really afford the loss, and the neighbor ain’t exactly living the high life either. But thieves apparently don’t care what hardships they impose.
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I need your experience!
Today, I saw these decorative "Mosaic" clue-on foils for your kitchen furniture, for the very first time. And I found them really nice looking!
How good is this clue-on stuff? Reliable or short-living clue??
Today, I saw these decorative "Mosaic" clue-on foils for your kitchen furniture, for the very first time. And I found them really nice looking!
How good is this clue-on stuff? Reliable or short-living clue??
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Got a picture?
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perpetrated by 'saboteurs' Nowadays we would have to fling our plastic Nike running shoes at the hard drives....."Niketeurs"? or probably more effective to dump our Starbucks latte into the main frame......"starbuccaneers"?I thought you were a Star Trek fan. Have we learned nothing from Lieutenant Valeris: "400 years ago on the planet Earth, workers who felt their livelihood threatened by automation flung their wooden shoes called sabots into the machines to stop them. Hence the word 'sabotage'."
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Why does everybody who makes You Tube videos adopt the same eye-bugging, nostril-flaring, hand-waving persona, exclaiming "Guys!" to start every other phrase? Is there some trendy How To Make Engaging You Tube Videos That Get The Clicks tutorial that urges them to do this in hopes of promoting viewer engagement and driving the algorithm? Or is it just that all You Tube videos are made by eye-bugging, nostril-flaring, hand-waving idiots? "GUYS!"
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Vinyl, maybe?
I’d have to see it up close and run my hands over it before delivering a verdict. Is it textured, maybe?
That it’s fake glass or ceramic or whatever wouldn’t necessarily put me off to it. The vinyl plank flooring in my kitchen has a faux wood grain, as does the ceramic tile on the bathroom floor and the sheet steel garage door.
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I don't know with any reasonable certainty, but my money is on "eye-bugging, nostril-flaring, hand-waving idiots".
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Steve Rinella does not do the fake, bug eye, nostril flare.....
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I prophesy, that Youtube is dead. It's far beyond it's zenith. All next-generation Youtubers doing the same now, old pioneer youtubers are submerged. There's not more any innovative stuff.
I bet, it will change to pay TV, next years.
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Another thing:
Yesterday, in the next bigger city, an Edeka supermarket, I have never been in before, had new shopping carts with smartphone holders! I only thought "WTF"?? But these carts curiously had no deposit slots, too.
Do they think, people use their smarthones as grocery list mounted on the shopping cart?
Yesterday, in the next bigger city, an Edeka supermarket, I have never been in before, had new shopping carts with smartphone holders! I only thought "WTF"?? But these carts curiously had no deposit slots, too.
Do they think, people use their smarthones as grocery list mounted on the shopping cart?
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