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What are all y'alls workplace dresscodes? Mine is very casual (but of course bathe and don't look like a homeless person). In the summer I usually wear jeans/khakis and T's, and in other seasons I wear button down flannel/dress shirts (that are warm)

STLCards1991 posted...

When I worked at Menards my favorite song to sing along to was Pompeii by Bastille.

hell yeah that song bangs

I've actually been on a pretty big Alanis hook lately and right when I entered the dressing room, Head Over Feet came on and I had a mini freakout

CaptainHammer posted...

During my Macy's days I worked behind the scenes so I always played my own music but I remember on the first of the month once when the soundtrack changed they played Human by the Killers and I yelled ooooooooohhhhh in the earshot of customers because I was so hyped. That and some early Green Day song were my two big excited moments

any reasonable Macy's customer would have paid an extra 15% to hear some Holiday by Green Day. I know I would've

Zeeky_Bomb posted...

I'm a fucking hipster and I spent way too much on a pair of wool shoes. But goddamn are they super comfortable.

genuinely curious. They look comfy. can you only wear those lounging indoors as a pair of comfy shoes (since they're wool), or are they more like loafers/sneakers?
you said runners in an earlier post which makes me even more confused

I also gotta say... I was at macy's for a good 45 minutes, went to the dressing room a couple times (also bought a couple pairs of shorts) and their soundtrack absolutely shredded.
highlights were:
Head Over Feet by Alanis Morissete
DJ Khaled - I'm The One ft. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance (I non ironically like this song)
Mr. Brightside by the Killers

here's pics of my on sale macy's shoes

Zeeky_Bomb posted...

Nah, they're casual runners made from merino wool. They're amazing.

pics

I usually go to macy's because I have a macy's card which is 20% off everything in addition whatever their sales are, plus it's close to my house. I hate clothes shopping more than almost anything, but you can get pretty good stuff for a reasonable price there. I just ignore their certain date/time coupons.

I just needed a pair of brown dress shoes that I probably won't need to wear again and I got a pretty ok deal. And goddammit, I think they look nice

I wen't to macy's to buy some dress shoes and they had the dumbest promotion ever. I was checking out and they said they have a "presale" deal going on and if I come back to pick up the shoes on Friday I'll get 30% off. It was such a weird concept that it took me a second to get what they were saying. I obviously said no and took them home. I would pay 30% extra to not have to come back.

I guess the idea behind it is if I leave and come back Friday I'll buy more stuff while I'm picking up the shoes? I have no idea

STLCards1991 posted...

I still wouldn't say it's educational though. It could in theory be used as an educational tool, but that doesn't mean every kid who plays it will learn something.

That was my thinking

SteamedHams posted...

At least Minecraft is pseudo-educational

Is it really tho? Besides the creativity/hand eye coordination or whatever arguments you can make for most other video games

CaptainHammer posted...

While this is true according to reddit and wikipedia, it doesn't really look like them now that I'm checking my work

I never knew this but I also looked up some images and it seems like it fits, except they used more of a straight outline rather than exact shapes of the borders, because that would probably look weird

I wonder if teams like Carolina Panthers are supposed to be both Carolina states or just NC

SteamedHams posted...

You know how the Warriors are officially "Golden State"? I always thought that was odd. They're the only team like that in the big four that doesn't have a city or state name. I wonder, would other teams be allowed to rename like that if they wanted? What would you want one of your teams to go by if they did that?

I think "Rocky Mountain Avalanche" doesn't sound half-bad, but I can't think of any good ones for the other three. Going the Warriors route, "Centennial State" doesn't fit with any of them

New England?

a diving catch a stoooooooelllllllllllleeeeeeen baeeseeeee
a perfect game, a trieaaple play, another playoff race, yes

Zeeky_Bomb posted...

And the current Ducks jerseys in the NHL are terrible.

agreed...somehow they made their new logo worse than the disney ducks weird hockey mask thing

In my humble opinion, the Phins shirts are not bottom 3. They're middle of the pack. I really like the orange/teal/white combo, but the logo is effing lame. A lot of potential but poor execution.

wow now I want to think about the ugliest jerseys in sports and make a post about those...

The bucs jerseys are truly horrendous...from the terrible color scheme to the font...
I've always kinda liked the Aves ones, especially the older ones with the sasquatch foot on the shoulder (RIP Roy)

The Jags just got new jerseys. They still look pretty bad, but their helmets finally lost that weird microsoft paint 50/50 pattern

Zeeky_Bomb posted...

(your rules suck, because the Red Wings would genuinely be my #1 here)

yeah that's kind of the point of those rules - no bias. Vikes would be my #1 for NFL, but that's the only MN team I'd include in my top 5 for any sport.

I forgot how sexy the Leafs jerseys are...they're probably my #6.

I'll figure out my MLB/NBA ones later, but god damn those classic yankee gray pinstripes with that iconic Jay Z logo are really great (and I fucking hate the yankees)

My top 5 favorite jerseys for every team that's not my favorite teams:
(each team has home/away/alternate jerseys of course, so I'm just going to go with their most recognizable ones, like if this was the vikings, it'd be their purple jerseys)
I will include images with my #1 for each league but beyond that is too much work

NHL:
1. Winnipeg Jets
Everything about this sweater is sexy...the logo, the color scheme, the deep shade of blue with the white and the lighter shade of blue...I'm obviously not happy that the Jets just stomped the absolute shit out of my favorite team, but I still like them (except Byfuglien)


2. Vegas Golden Knights. Like I've said, the name of the team is terrible, but the jerseys and logo is f&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&ing awesome

3. San Jose Sharks

4. Nashville Preds

5. NY Islanders

NFL:

5: Carolina Panthers

4. Chicago Bears

3. Denver Broncos

2. Seattle Seahawks

1. New Orleans Saints (I fucking hate the Saints but their jerseys, logo, and color scheme are really nice)

I'm gonna have to do MLB/NBA later..I'll give it some thought

Zeeky_Bomb posted...

I'll do that with you. And yeah, the later Expos jerseys were not nearly as good, but they had a really awesome baby blue jersey:

oooo that's a nice shade of powder baby blue. that looks old school in the best sense of the term...it's what modern jerseys try to replicate when the try to go "old school"

anyway I'm going to post my top 5 jersey/logo combinations for NHL/NFL/NBA/MLB minus the minnesota teams (all strictly opinion based of course)

I might just do that on my own because it sounds kinda fun

isn't big sexy the only current player to have played for the expos?

also...those jerseys look boring af, just like every MLB jersey.

it would be kinda fun to have all of us rank the best jerseys/logos for every sport, except we have to exclude our favorite teams because that would be biased

I had to look them up, but they do certainly look pretty cool, despite being packers colors. For me, baseball jerseys do a really good job of looking plain/boring and classic/sharp at the same time.

with my current expenses? absolutely not

I've said it before...I don't know anything about basketball, but D Rose is playing a fucking awesome game. Some Twolves fans were adamantly opposed to signing and I dont' understand why...it's minimum contract. There was literally nothing to lose and no downside, and he's been playing very well

when multiplayer comes out, are we going to wreck some mad stardew on switch? Would we go to someone's farm, or does it allow you to create a brand new farm for multiplayer? dibs on Haley and Penny (I want 2 gfs)

It only happens in the regular season. Depends on the team/player, but maybe once every like 5-10 games a team will have a full on fight with 2 5 minute fighting majors given. It's allowed by the league because they think it makes the sport more popular, but it's literally WWE.

There will be scuffles, but full on fights never happen in the playoffs and the olympics because the players are actually playing the game and don't want to do stupid ass WWE stunts. And yeah it's banned in a lot of levels of hockey.

It's also a big cause of concussions. A lot of fights don't have any real hits, but if you take one clean shot to the face, especially from a professional athlete experienced with fighting in hockey, it's going to do damage.

Maybe I'm going crazy, but I think the NHL is the worst run league of the big 4, but it's the least popular so it kind of gets swept under the rug. Bad officiating, no consistency with fines/suspensions (just like the NFL), stagnant salary cap situation, bad CBA which makes lockouts an inevitability, bad ownership for the most part. They are also just as guilty as the NFL for hiding the whole concussion issue. And they still allow fighting! I get embarrassed to be a hockey fan when there's a fighting a hockey game.

One of the most cringy things about weed culture is when someone calls 4/20 "the holiday" (non ironically)

You'd think a lot of applicants who are actively looking would have moved on after a certain point

It does always seem to go faster when you know someone... I heard of my current job (and a different one) through friends, they send me the application, put in a good word, and within a couple days I had an interview arranged.
With applying for jobs normally it always takes way longer. Just my experience, of course

He got set up with the interview through his dad's connections, interviewed, was offered the job, and had the piss test set up all within a couple days. It was only a 3 month position or so, which is probably why there weren't multiple rounds of interviews, along with his dad setting it up

One of my old roommates waked and baked literally every day (not at 420 am tho). This was the summer between undergrad and grad school for him. His dad worked at an engineering company and pulled some strings with the CEO to get him a job in the lab for the summer. It all came up pretty quick, so my roommate had no chance of passing the drug test. He got clean urine from a different roommate, went and took the test, but it turns out he went to the wrong clinic. The test had to be done by a certain time, so he had to drive to the right clinic right then. He had a little bit of the clean urine left, so he used the rest to dilute it with his own. Ended up failing the test (obviously) and it was a pretty big embarrassment for his dad.

1 hour until 4/20. I bet chewy has his bowl packed and ready on his nightstand and alarm set for 4:18am (I know I sure do)

I hear YouTube tv is pretty good.

I use my dad's dish password and Chromecast everything, but sometimes those streams are worse quality than illegal one

Ultima_Dragoon posted...

Ever since that whole fiasco with Windows 10 trying to force itself on me, Windows updates are turned completely off on my computer. Every now and then I'll get a reminder that I have 60+ updates waiting to install but I'll take my chances with what I've got.

I have a pirated version of Windows 7 that still automatically updates but has never tried to upgrade to 10

CaptainHammer posted...

the first one starting the Pokemon Snap protagonist

That guy was a total dork.

So the Indians Twitter account posted this screenshot of a fan's reaction to the game on Reddit.
https://twitter.com/Indians/status/986819574799765504?s=19

But what actually happened is they created a new account, made that post, then took a screenshot and pretended it was something funny a fan wrote. You can tell because the delete/edit button is there and those only show up for your own posts. It's also a brand new account with a very generic name

Lol I just saw the twins score. It was 0-0 until the 14th and now it's 1-1 in the 15th. People might as well have gone to a soccer game

you know I really hate to be the guy who complains about officiating and how it affects the outcome of the game, but this wasn't called last night.

https://streamable.com/ykf2d

The guy should have been give a 5 minute major, tossed from the game, and gotten a suspension of at least a game or two, but it wasn't even called at all. And then right after this, the Jets scored and Morrissey had an assist. NHL officiating has gotten really bad

The only chickfila near me is in a food court on campus so I very rarely get to go, but here's what I like to do. You guys are going to think I'm a freak, but I like to get the spicy sandwich, take the pickles out, put ranch on top of the chicken, then eat the sandwich.

Unrelated chick-fil-a story: there are hardly any of them here in MN, but my mom really likes the polynesian sauce from there. One day I thought I'd be nice and bring her back some, so I put like 20 of the little containers in my backpack (in a separate pocket) and somehow they all ruptured and leaked everywhere. So that's how I ruined a backpack with chick-fil-a

There's no extra charge to sub extra toast for the slaw! 2 toasts and 2 sauces is living large my friend.

something funny from the Wild game is that the loudest cheer of the night came when they showed Cousins on the jumbotron. The Wild didn't score a fucking goal so what else is there to cheer for

here's the video that was shown on the jumbotron
https://twitter.com/Vikings/status/986429182430334977

STLCards1991 posted...

Raising Cane's is great. I really love DQ ice cream but I don't actually know their hot food very well.

DQ ice cream is good, but do they have Coldstone where you guys live? that ice cream is incredible

5 days ago a new Raising Cane's less than a mile from my house (the old one is less than 2 so it's not that much different, but still). Maybe I should go there today. Box combo, replace the cole slaw with an extra toast, and extra Cane's sauce.

One thing I like about Cane's is that they know they make chicken fingers very very well, and that's the only thing they do. They don't clutter up the menu with extra crap that's not going to be as good just for the sake of having a little variety.

SkynyrdRocker posted...

I called my friend in New York today on my way home with Bojangles and him talking about how he missed Bojangles had me thinking: Are there any good chains based in the North? I know the Midwest has some good stuff, the South has a bunch of fried chicken things, and I think even the West Coast has some stuff. I couldn't think of anything for the North.

I've only had Bojangles at the Charlotte airport a couple times, but it's v good.
Raising Cane's is also incredible. Those are all from other places tho.
DQ is from here, but it's just mediocre. It's decent if you want to go to a place that has okay chicken strips and okay ice cream

SkynyrdRocker posted...

Hey Socky do you have Culver's in Minnesota? It's so good. When we went to a Packers game last fall we went there for lunch and I liked it so much we had it for dinner too.

Yeah there's Culver's here. I've only been there like 2 times ever.
Better beef makes a butter burger better

Captain Kirk and a bunch of other vikings are at the wild game

I'm going to the Wilds game tonight. I'll have been to playoff games against the Aves, Blackhawks, Stars, Blues, and now Jets. That's every team in the division except the Preds. If the wild somehow win the series I might have to go to a round 2 game to complete it.

I just helped a few foreign people (I live close enough to the university where there are international students in my building) free their cars from the snowpocalypse. I have very few skills, but it was nice to utilize the one skill I have of having a snowshovel in my trunk and knowing how to push/telling people when to accelerate/reverse when stuck

I just saw on the twitter machine that the B Jays roof collapsed. I don't know anything about TBJ Field, but the vikings old stadium used to be the worst place in the world, and its roof collapsed. Here's a video of it, which looks like a crappy PS2 final fantasy cutscene

This is going to be fun to dig out