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Colorahdo posted...

I can't imagine a situation where you'd propose and *not* be completely sure she'd say yes

It was painfully obvious my wife wanted me to propose

Yeah, in all the proposals I've seen (or been a part of), the gf/fiance already knew it was coming, she just didn't know when or where, which is where the surprise comes from. It's not all that often that a guy will propose and not actually know if this is what the girl wants.
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Cleo_II posted...

no video conference?

Just a couple of occasions but then Ill throw something on real quick and do a side braid. Takes 5 minutes lol

My wife worked from home for a period of time at her old job and she used to do her work naked (since she sleeps naked and keeps her laptop on the stand next to the bed). But one day she randomly got a spontaneous video call request and she had to decline it since she couldn't get dressed in time. She started dressing after that, lol.
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That's the dream, isn't it? Working from home isn't for everyone, though. One of the faculty at our university works from home and she hates it. She feels caged in her house as she's not very social and work used to be the only real reason for her to get out.

That's definitely something I'd love to do one day, though. The wife and I plan to have our own kids soon and I'd love to see them more often when I do have them as my work schedule has me out of the house a lot on trips.

I'd love to just work at my own pace from the house, like I used to when I was an online student at university.
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meralonne posted...

I loved her work in Dont Trust the B**** in Apartment 23.

That show was awesome. Sad it only got 1 season.
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fan357 posted...

Well it wasnt bad. They just showed old videos and had discussions on harassment and behavior.

Zanzenburger posted...

They usually have videos (not movies) on stuff like sexual harassment and keeping a safe workplace.

Yep, par for the course.
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CyricZ posted...

Zanzenburger posted...

There are others that are more engaged (usually done on nonprofits and college campuses), where you play games that serve a point on how diversity works. They go by different names, but there's the "line of privilege" game, a systematic oppression card game, and just other "pair and share" activities to understand how different people are. And it goes to more than just race and gender. It talks about low income vs high income, rural vs urban, abled vs disabled, single parent home vs dual parent home, etc.

I'd like to hear more about this. I've never specifically been involved in this in any respect.

Well the game I call the "line of privilege" is where everyone stands in a line. The moderator then reads out a particular characteristic or attribute and tells the participant to step forward or backward if they fit that attribute.

Some examples:
"If you grew up in a two-parent household, take two steps forward"
"If English is the second language you learned in school, take one step backward"
"If you have ever been asked to speak for your entire race, take two steps backward"
"If you made it through college with no student loans, take two steps forward"
"If you've ever feared for your safety walking outside, take one step backward"

The idea is that we have a lot of invisible attributes like social, cultural, and political capital that helps or hurts us. If life were a race, this game determines everyone's starting point. And despite diversity often focusing on race, a lot of those situations don't necessarily apply to a single identifier. Like the last one, while people who grew up in unsafe neighborhoods may be very likely to step backwards, you might also find women in general stepping backward. The people near the front realize just how fortunate they are from the getgo by realizing they have all these advantages before even taking into consideration skill and talent, showing how the game is weighted to make some more likely to succeed.

The card game is similar but works a bit differently in that you get to experience what it's like to be in a different social/cultural/political class through a simulated activity where people treat you according to the stereotypes depicted by your card.

There's a number of activities that can be used and are usually tailored to the needs of the group. Though there's usually extensive training involved to moderate these activities as they can become pretty personal and offensive if not handled carefully.
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Tyranthraxus posted...

Heh, the one and only time I ever bought flight insurance I ended up having to cancel the flight so I got all my money back minus the $40 I spent for the insurance. It could have been worse I guess.

Well that's true, the insurance is more useful if it's you cancelling the flight due to sickness or other reason. It's much harder if it's on the airline/airport side.
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I bought flight insurance for a flight ticket once cause it was a flight to a very important meeting (it was my phd defense) and I could not be late.

Sure enough, my flight was delayed just long enough that I missed my connecting flight by 10 minutes. Despite this, the insurance wouldn't cover it because one of its stipulations was that the original flight delay had to be longer than 6 hours to qualify for insurance protection. The missed connection flight was essentially deemed "my fault" since there was nothing wrong with the flight, and I still got to my final destination within that 6 hour limit.

The stipulations on travel insurance are very excessive and make it very hard to get your money back unless the flight was fully cancelled (and even then, they don't cover "acts of God" such as weather events, just maintenance issues).
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Honestly, being senile would make it easier for me to accept death. Death terrifies me more. :/
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I've been in charge of diversity trainings before. They come in various shapes and sizes. The worst ones (usually done by corporations) are the presentations that seemingly go on forever. They usually have videos (not movies) on stuff like sexual harassment and keeping a safe workplace.

There are others that are more engaged (usually done on nonprofits and college campuses), where you play games that serve a point on how diversity works. They go by different names, but there's the "line of privilege" game, a systematic oppression card game, and just other "pair and share" activities to understand how different people are. And it goes to more than just race and gender. It talks about low income vs high income, rural vs urban, abled vs disabled, single parent home vs dual parent home, etc.

Though in my experience, large corporations just go for the presentation and the video with an occasional icebreaker.
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Kronk's New Groove?

And I guess The Emporer's New Groove towards the end.
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Ehh, I had work off today and got bugged like 4 times by text to put out fires. It's definitely not meaningless but I also hate the sense of urgency that exists with it when I am away.
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I was a lead in a theatre show and she was the director. Yeah I banged the director.
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So who now are all the Drs on CE now? I have them all tagged as Dr. when I come across them but I none seem to come to mind at the moment. EDIT: There's MacadamiaNut, at least.
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This sounds edgy.

Modern churches are pretty good. Inviting and casual. I cant blame families for looking for some positivity in their weekends.
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Turbam posted...

I actually haven't even seen it yet.
I hear it's good, but doesn't really need to exist.

Yeah, that's how I would describe it.

Honestly, aside from the last 10 minutes, the whole movie felt like a longer version of the specials they air every now and then. Decent, but without that "epicness" and emotional impact you get from the other 3 films.

The movie did have its gut punch moments, one involving the villain and then the whole last 10 minutes.

The humor was also on point.
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I for sure thought you were gonna post the pic of her bending over to grab something and shoving it in front of Woody's face at the carnival. With Woody's focus on it I thought he was gonna make a comment about it but he was too much of a gentleman.
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Anytime the heroes have a plan to stop the villain and discuss the plan. We all know that when they discuss the plan out loud ahead of time that it inevitably will fail (and they will have to come up with something else on the spot).

The only plans that work flawlessly in movies are those where they don't discuss them in front of the audience beforehand.
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Outlook works great for me. I hate Gmail's layout.
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I live next to a busy intersection. If I don't push the gas when backing out of my driveway, there's a high likelihood a car will zip through the corner and run into me cause these crazy drivers don't pay attention.
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Have you had "the talk"?

You know, the one where you determine the idle temperature for the house?
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How many cars have you owned/leased in your life? On average, how often do you get a new one?

I just totaled my car of 15 years and am finally replacing it with a new one. The guys at the dealership were like O_O when I told them how long I held on to my car and only upgraded cause I didn't have a choice.
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Aside from my wife, there are a handful of times in my life when I've seen in person some breasts that I wish I had the ability to share just from my memory so others can enjoy the bliss that I felt from those moments. Alas, no pictorial evidence exists except for the fleeting one in my noggin.
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Become a little league soccer coach and motivate those kids. Moms eat that up.

Or join a group fitness class at a local gym, particularly the cardio ones like zumba, step, or spinning. From my experience attending those classes, the women there are thirsty, and there are rarely guys there.
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DarthAragorn posted...

I feel like my top 10 list from the series would be entirely different from that one. Maybe one or two of the same songs

But yes, it was a really great show

Yeah, I don't agree with all of them, but I was too lazy to try to rank my top 10 list, lol, so I found someone that already had a ranking.

I'd say the college song and the Santa Anna winds songs would definitely be up there for me. Also this one is gold, especially the end:

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The show lasted four seasons in what was probably the lowest ratings of any show that lasted that long. It was a musical show and the songs just kept getting more outrages and ridiculous as the show went on.

Just look at this top 10 list of the craziest songs that were practically professional music videos on crack:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/04/05/best-crazy-ex-girlfriend-songs-ranked/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c7cdee872a83

Despite the cliche premise, the show was actually very grounded in its depiction of relationships and mental health. The show quickly became an ensemble show and the cast worked well together.

I hope Rachel Bloom gets more work after this show. She's really talented. So far, I've seen her doing some voiceover work for some upcoming animated movies but I hope she gets more live action roles.

I surprised the wife for our anniversary and took her to see Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Live in concert in New York recently. Got to see some of the best songs acted out live. And for whatever reason Rachel Bloom decided to take off her shirt and bra on stage during the last song and perform the whole thing topless. I think there was a feminist message attached to that but I was too preoccupied to really notice, lol.

Any other fans of the show? It never really got much talk while it was airing so just wondering if anyone else had thoughts on it.
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That article makes quite a few leaps, lol.

But I agree with most posts in this topic that dating a single mom isn't the worst thing in the world. There's a few rotten apples but they're usually easy to spot.
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Pukelid posted...

so you spent your whole childhood with flavorless food and as soon as other food presented itself to you, you were like "nah i hate taste" and continued to flavorless traysh

Different people like different things. More at 11.
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I know Chipotle sells itself as Mexican, and Mexican food has lots of spices and seasonings, but in a lot of other Latin American countries, food is actually pretty muted. In Honduras, for example, they are not known to season their foods very strongly and go for a more muted taste. It's really only the touristy areas of Latin American countries that go ham with the spices for branding purposes mostly.

I grew up with food that tasted very similar to Chipotle (I'm Honduran) so it's actually my favorite restaurant. I can't stand queso or the salsas of other places.
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I wonder what the anti-evolution crowd will think of this.
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Lost_All_Senses posted...

Zanzenburger posted...

Amy. I'm attracted to that type of personality for some reason.

Does it sync up with yours or us it the exact opposite? I like her ambition and passion but Im the exact opposite of her. Chick like that would make me better while Id just have to focus on not dragging her down >_>.

For me, I think it syncs up with my personality. Like whenever she says or does something in an episode I'm shaking my head "yep, preach on". I just feel like we'd make one of those great annoying couples that overthink and overplan everything.
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Amy. I'm attracted to that type of personality for some reason.
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qwertyuio1 posted...

Ended up watching all of them even the interactive movie one about the game based on a novel. Tbh I liked it a lot. It was like when goose bumps made you choose your own story.

So any comments or thoughts or highlights?

I love hearing impressions on Black Mirror. They can be so all over the place, lol.
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I haven't used Youtube in forever and if all this is true then wow. Last time I used Youtube I could watch video game walkthroughs with no commentary and the occasional let's plays with neutral commentary here and there.

I couldn't imagine watching what y'all are describing.
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This topic is great.
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CapnMuffin posted...

People post the Buffalo thing all the time and I still dont get it. Like I get it can be different types of nouns but Im assuming that sentence would need a verb or something.

Buffalo can mean three things: the city (n), the animal (n), and can be used as a verb meaning intimidate or bully (v).

Using different terminology, the sentence can be said this way:

[(Buffalonian bison) (Buffalonian bison intimidate)] intimidate (Buffalonian bison).
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DevsBro posted...

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DevsBro posted...

Zanzenburger posted...

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

That is a grammatically correct sentence.

Well, it needs some commas.

Nope, it's perfectly correct as-is

They say it doesn't but it really does.

If I said "yellow cats black mice fear eat dry food", it would need commas too.

It all has to do with restrictive relative clauses and non-restrictive relative clauses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_relative_clauses#Restrictive_or_non-restrictive_relative_clauses

You would only use the commas if you are talking about a specific buffalo (and not a whole general group).
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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

That is a grammatically correct sentence.
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Being a Hispanic in Oklahoma, the "only race in the room" thing was like every day for me.

Also, any fitness class I attend at the gym, I'm the only guy in the room. It used to bother me, but now I just relish in the extra attention I get.
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- Cascada
- Post 2015 Britney Spears (and Pre-2015 to an extent)

Though I have no issues with letting the world know of my Cascada fandom.
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Not on the list, but modern Seventh Day Adventism would be a good option. It promotes healthy eating as part of its religious practices, requires no work one day of the week (Saturdays), and on average, a seventh-day adventist's lifespan is 10 years longer than a non-SDA.
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Well I'll be, actual people with their tonsils removed. I was starting to think it was a myth.
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I remember seeing it in Hey Arnold and lots of other shows growing up. It's where I learned the "all the ice cream you can eat" cliche.

Yet not a single person I know has had their tonsils removed. It is nowhere near as common as TV made you think it was. It was practically a rite of passage.
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SoundNetwork posted...

San Junipero
USS Callister
Hang The DJ

i like all the light hearted ones for some reason

Lol me too.

I'd rank those as my top 3 as well.
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COVxy posted...

eah, the title is silly. But there's a fair amount of discussion about the harm in men dismissing titles when women often need them to be taken seriously, and often not even then. So I don't take them seriously, but I also try not to be explicitly dismissive of it.

Oh, for sure. I will call people by their title every time if I know it. I just don't seem to care as much if they don't say it to me in most situations.

Though I will put the title if a webform or application gives me the option, like on credit card apps or website registrations.

One time a website had an option to put an academic title, and then would send me form emails addressed to "Mr. PhD"
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COVxy posted...

boxington posted...
congrats, man.

now if someone's like, "Mr. COVxy", you can go, "please, it's Dr. COVxy"

Haha, I think the novelty of the title has already worn off. Then again, mostly it's been used facetiously in the past couple of days as "Dr. [First name].

I have yet to correct someone who calls me Mr. instead of Dr. It just seems like a jerk thing to do. I've had other people correct those that didn't use my title, but I just can't get over doing it myself.

Now if I was in a room full of Drs. and one decided to call me Mr., then I would gladly correct them. I can see this happening in the not-too-distant future, since I am a staff member working at a university with a bunch of faculty that see the staff as "beneath them".

But for your regular person I run into that calls me Mr., they don't care what my title is, lol.
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Congratulations Dr. C! Relish in this moment!
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radical rhino posted...

2 is the best of the trilogy

QFT
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