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Wow, all the adult toys actually vibrate!!!

Smallville posted...

Do you have the whole series on dvd or blu ray? i do

Never did VHS/DVD etc for shows in my whole life, even before you could watch anything online. Now adays there is really no reason since any show you want to watch is available online easily pretty much.

It's not just teenagers but many were made for them, especially as time went on. Believe they evolved from the WB back in the day, and even back then they had shows like hurculeas/xena etc that were kinda aimed at teens etc (though as an adult I enjoyed them).

They had smallville as well, and then eventually the arrowverse. Toss in things like vampire diaries and the spin offs and especially Supernatural (great show) and you had quite a few hits on the channel over the year.

Most think it has gone downhill recently though with the arrowverse especially getting ughish. Supernatural didn't have a great last few seasons (in many peoples opinions) and nothing was really drawing in people lately (buncha of Meh new shows in the past years that just didn't really work).

Was a very good channel for a looooong time though, so it's sad to see what happened with it. Heck the CW incorporated a bunch of stuff from the WB which had buffy/angel etc as well, so many of the great sci fi/fantasy shows of the last 20 years were on the WB or CW basically.

Smallville posted...

yeah i didn't get the popularity of the big bang theory either. Any of you were smallville fans, though?

As you know, I was/am a smallville fan, still think Micheal was the best lex ever. Fell off for me after he left the show and when I rewatch it, I often end up stopping around season 6 or 7 because of that.

Meanwhile BBT was meh for me, good enough to watch through it, but not enough to rewatch through it basically. I didn't really "like" any of the characters. I often found Sheldon annoying/stupid but it did have some things that I found interesting/fun that they would get involved in etc.

Much prefered Seinfield "no soup for you!!" but I did make it through all of BBT and that requires at least a semi-decent show (based on what I like of course).

Smallville on the other hand I really enjoyed all of the first time (Even after season 6) and have fully rewatched it at least 3 times, and partially (through lex leaving) a few more. Tis my favorite superman tv series, and still one of my favorite series all together.

Haven't seen it yet, but it's half of a shadowrun anime basically so can't wait to watch it. Dissapointed by the game which I have owned for awhile but not played that far into, but will probably give it another chance after watching the anime.

Just......really wish they would make a Shadowrun anime, let alone a good shadowrun rpg/mmo.

I was an expert pasta sauce maker, that had people mention my food (specially lasagna) 20 years after eating it.

That being said, after my wife passed and it's just me, I converted to the lazy but still good method of using prego sauce as my base, then adding ground beef/sausage/bay leaves/basil/onions/a whole bell pepper etc to it.

It is WAY faster and still tastes really good (if not as good).

If you rate olive garden pasta sauce as a 6, and from scratch home made as a 10, the prego base pasta sauce is probably a 8-9....not quite as good, but damn good enough, and instead of cooking all day, your done in about 1-2 hours.

Few suggestions

First there is an mmo called Dungeons and dragons online. It's even free if you want, though i'd recommend getting a $10 monthly sub as it adds a ton.

You can play that forever, there are people who have multiple characters that have like a year + age on them. You reincarnate after you hit cap, adding a bonus each time, and there is something like 250 possible reincarnations that all give you a different boost. Each reincarnation is probably about a week real time playing.

That is more modern, includes graphics etc, but if you REALLY wanna get lost in a game with no end ever in sight......

3 kingdoms is a mud, I have probably about 3 years of actual time played (in game) with somewhere about a 97% in combat rate between my characters. That sounds like alot, but there are people with over 10 years of actual in game time. You could start playing now, play non-stop every day the whole time your awake, for the next 15 years, and STILL not catch up to many older players. Literally could play till 2050 with tons of stuff left to do.

There are of course tons of other games, but both of those can pretty much let you play something forever.

So last cruise I went to was a deluxe balcony and it basically had a bit of extra space with a couch, and the balcony you could stand on and look out. Anyone can go outside though and stand on balcony's anytime they want.

Since you get no extra space (ours was a junior suite, not just balcony), and even the full suites don't really have much space (They were all in the same rows so we saw them passing by), it's just not worth it price wise......UNLESS.

The suites with the couch can sleep 3 people (in different beds) since the couch folds out). That lets you split the cost 3 ways, and can be cheaper per person than the inside cabins for only 2 people. A third person adds a very small amount (if the first 2 are $3k, the additional 3rd is like $400).

So if you get an inside room at $1200 per person, you pay $2400 all together (not including all the other fees etc that everyone pays and the $15 tip a day per person etc).

That is $2400 total and $1200 per person.

If you get a suite it's $3300 or so total, or $1100 per person, you get a balcony of your own, and a tiny bit more space.

Anyway, I don't really think cruises are worth it myself, I've gone on two. In both cases I would WAY rather have flown to a destination, rented a nice hotel, and gone out to eat at places that served exactly what I wanted and were high quality.

The buffet on cruises pretty much suck and that is your only option for breakfast and lunch. You can eat at speciality resteraunts, but end up paying as much as you would to do that (on top of your base price) as you would on land anyway (and the food, while better than the buffet, isn't up to the standards of any $50 a plate places on land).

There are some tricks you can do to make the cruise cheaper, like using onboard credit to get cash directly from the casino (convert it on a slot machine, then cash out and get cash directly for it). If you book a trip while on a trip, they usually give you a significant ($600 or so) amount of onboard credit for the next trip. IF your next trip would be $1100 a peron like above, that $600 actually drops it down to only $500 total for the trip (10 day trip in that case, so only $50 a day base (+15$ a day tip, and a few other expenses would make you end up around $80 a day total probably for a suite, with 3 people).

If you get a hotel room for 3 people your lucky to get one in most places that is at least 3 stars and decent, for anywhere less than $120 (which is $40 each), which leaves you only $40 or so to spend on food/transportation etc each day to break even.

That being said, I'd rather spend a bit more, avoid the boat, and just relax on my own schedule anywhere I go. Most of the cruise ports are literal tourist traps where everything is mega expensive, and all the food places are crazy crowded.

Also you can have outbreaks on ships even without covid where everyone ends up getting sick with the flu etc, the entertainment can often suck donkey balls, and you often end up at sea for at least a few days.

IF you are going to go on a cruise, I highly suggest doing it with people you really like, and unless you just got married to them and are about to have a bunch of sex for most of the cruise, try and go with more then a few people you like, that will keep you from getting bored hopefully.

It's actually likely to backfire because alot of people don't subscribe until multiple shows are finished on other platforms (HBO max/disney etc), which netflix usually had full shows release almost every month in the past, which meant many people just kept a subscription going.

It's the only one I ever had for a whole year for instance.

Disney is hit or miss, maybe 1/3 months has something I want to watch. I generally sub for it 2 months out of the year. HBO max I generally sub based on the movies it has (2 times a year or so).

Netflix was at least 6 months out of the year, but I have had it steady for the last year or so, and probably will at least for now. I still have a ton of netflix shows in my backlog, and still watch it more than any other streaming service.

The whole non-binge thing won't really affect me, and neither does the price increase (since it's cheaper than HBO max at least). Main thing that will is if they stop having good shows come out, but even then, it's gonna be awhile till I get through the backlog (probably at least a year). They also already have a bunch of upcoming shows I'm looking forward to, so yeah, I won't be going anywhere soon.

Spot, Wolfy, Doggie, Arf, Bear, Max, Cujo

It's not hard. Cujo isn't usually used for good boys though.

Lokarin posted...

ya, my thingy says it's 32C right now, with a prediction of 36

Woah, awesome that it's a thermometer but kinda scary that it can talk as well.

Jen0125 posted...

My neighborhood is very lively, colorful and diverse in appearance thanks to not having an HOA. If anyone ever moves here and tries to form an HOA I will not be joining.

That is what shotguns are for (to keep them from moving in that is).

Every day is friday if you try hard enough.

I personally think all jobs should be done without pants.

faramir77 posted...

I think student loans should be interest free. Public universities in the US need more respect and attention.

In Canada, very few universities are private, and generally they're the worst ones. There's one in BC called Trinity Western that has such a bad reputation that I wouldn't be surprised if a degree from there made you LESS likely to get a job.

While the extreme costs of a degree are a problem, and rediculous (people make billions a year off our education system), it's the interest that is the real crime. Almost everyone could eventually pay off their student loans in a reasonable (20 years or less) time frame even with the extreme costs, but if you add 7% interest and fees etc that pump that over 10%, you end up with people in perpetual debt. Many decide to just leave the country all together eventually to avoid it.

Playsaver posted...

If you thought he was that, then you should have know it was proven that he was real.
https://grammar.yourdictionary.com/vs/primary-difference-between-hypothesis-and-theory.html

Any such proofs are based on perceptions that are often faulty and could be manipulated. Who is to say everything we think happened before the year 2000 wasn't just implanted memories and part of a simulation being run by aliens?

I'm pretty sure he disproved himself at one point.

The government directly gave loans with insane interest rates to millions of americans and allowed colleges to jack up their tuition (even while students were still going to college) drastically increasing the cost within a 10 year period.

This has created many low to middle income college students that ended up graduating with 30k or more in debt, which wouldn't normally be a huge problem.

Except that the loans interest rate and fees are enough to double the actual amount of the loan within 5 years unless you at least pay enough to cover the interest, which it turns out many (maybe even a majority) of college graduates were not able to do, due to the increased cost of living/rent and general low wages and often lack of jobs in the fields the students graduated in (Teachers for example in CA are a great example as in the last 10 years not only have many schools closed and less jobs were available, but wages have not increased to even cover the base cost of living in CA let alone pay back loans).

So now you have people who graduated with a teaching degree in 2015 who have over 100k in debt that is just getting larger every year. The forgiveness programs didn't work in most cases as well (if you teach at low income schools etc), and the current "loan forgiveness" is a joke for most people who have students loans and actually got more than an AA degree (which is generally needed for anything worth going to college for).

So no, this loan forgiveness is a joke and totally not going to solve the problem, in fact, the loan forgiveness will probably not help a majority of people with student loans at all, and they will STILL end up owing money for the rest of their lives.

Again, remove all interest on the loans and reset it to a freaking non-insane amount per year and stop freaking capitalizing it every year as well. Student loans flat out should not be charging more than 7% interest (or more then 2% interest for that matter), and nobody who graduated with 40k in loans should have over 100k owed in less than a decade, that is just crazy and should be illegal.

Most importantly those issues should be dealt with first before any foregiveness of loans since you are actually not helping people with the foregiveness (or not many of them) but are angering many republicans etc by doing so.

You are basically still lining the governments pockets with tons of money through interest each year, while throwing crumbs to the peasants to placate them.

Don't accept crumbs.

Fight to ensure everyone can go to college and pay for it in a reasonable way over a reasonable amount of time.

Nobody should be in debt for life to become a teacher.

No internet for you 1 year!!

Wasn't there a connection between one of the metal gear games and godzilla?

dragon504 posted...

Didn't this latest loan forgiveness also come accompanied by a cap of 5% on student loans?

This can help for now, but remember it's on total income, and before taxes, but most importantly it's not set in stone and it doesn't reduce the interest (meaning if you only pay 5% a year your loan keeps getting larger and larger). That is happening right now even with 10% a year because the 7%+ interest on the total student loans is larger than 10% of alot of peoples actual income (sadly).

5% just basically means you pay another 5% in tax a year because you went to college (currently 10% mind you, it's just proposed to become 5%). For almost half of americans who make somewhere around 15-20$ an hour (or 40k or less a year), that 5% added into social security tax etc, drops them down to under 30k a year total after taxes etc.

Rent most places alone eats up most of that (average of $1200 and in many areas getting a place for that little is a dream now).

But again, that is just the CURRENT amount, and it allows the principal to continue to grow. What is to say a future president won't change it to be 5% of the total debt you have per year, or they will garnish your wages (which is currently a thing already if you don't make payments) for 33% of your income?

It's actually WORSE to make it 5% now if that happens later because you set people up for a debt that can never be paid back, even if they are paying 33% of their net income every year, forcing them into perpetual poverty and making it almost impossible to survive (or pointless to even bother working).

The solution isn't easy, but the first stage should be to control the insane interest rates and stop the debt from continuing to skyrocket, then all debt should be evaluated and reset to a fair amount for the schooling that was recieved. Flat out maximum total debt should be given for straight degrees (IE just the number of classes for an AA, BA, MA etc). Something like 20k for an AA, 40k for a BA and 60k for a Masters would be somewhere around fair, and any debt owed over that should be canceled, include all rediculous interest accrued since the debt was obtained.

Future interest on that debt should be capped to a reasonable amount and not compounded. I'd prefer 1% to be honest even though it doesn't keep up with inflation, because we should invest in educating our citizens, but 2% should prevent a long term loss at least, and even on 60k 2% is managable per year if you are working at all (1.2k a year or 100$ a month).

There are no actual current proposals that will help the majority of people with student loans, and in fact, the one by biden will HURT most long term due to the 5% change, which looks good now, but can end up hurting people with loans over 40k and a salary under 40k worse than the current setup.

Is that the same food from the other day, just put on an english muffin?

Not like the same type of food mind you, the exact same food from that plate.

I mean, dunkin doughnuts is really freaking good, so I can understand that.

Holy crap what is that if not eggs, I was just guessing they were eggs, I guess they could be some REALLY bad looking hashbrowns, either way, I wouldn't eat em.

No steak at all -1
Eggs (I think those are eggs) are super seasoned probably because they suck (they look like they suck). 3
Toast looks ok but no or little butter and avacado with it which is bleh. 2

No hashbrowns at all -2.

So average out of 10 is 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY_bhVSGKEg&ab_channel=imawesomeandbea

Nothing in the news at all that I have seen but a freakton of people who have gotten the vaccine and often booster shots are getting covid right now, and often it's hitting them harder than past times they have gotten it. I'm fine so far, but a bunch of my friends etc have all gotten it in the last month.

Interestingly enough if you add video games that pretty much has been my major motivators throughout life, sex, meat (kababs), pizza and video games, and maybe they have video games at their shop.

LinkPizza posted...

I see no sex or kebabs

You got the most important thing though.

Student loans should be like home loans, not way worse than car loans with 7%+ interest per year, with additional penalties/fees and the ability to move any interest over to the principle. THAT needs to be done first, both now, and retroactively.

If you just flat out got rid of the insane interest, most people would not have a problem eventually paying back even the larger student loans (that were to large/expensive mind you but still managable).

Anyway, over 20 years, can pay back 60k, if you are only having 1k interest a year, even working fast food etc, you could pay it off.

But somehow (and you have to look it up to see how the fark they even do this), they are charging over 6k a year interest on a 60k loan and then adding that to the principle, and on top of that charging people fees etc that make it go up even faster.

Yes the underlying costs etc need to be fixed, but first and foremost, convert student loans to a much lower interest rate, prevent capitalizing the interest if payments are being made etc.

You should not be in more dept getting a BA degree then you would buying a home, but currently there are quite a few people who are, and it's only getting worse.

Archgoat posted...

I think you are referring to Rhaenyra. I know the names can be confusing, by Rhaenys is the older lady that is married to Corlys (the black guy on the council), also referred to as the queen who never was. Rhaenyra will also be played by another actress as a time skip is going to happen at some point where she will be older.

Ahh interesting, and yeah I meant Rhaenyra, and that makes sense that there will be a time skip and an older actress, I felt like there was something missing with her, like she was a place holder or an attempt to meld fans of two previous characters into one or something.

I suck at names, even normal ones lol. The actress wasn't horrid, just.....didn't really have the personality you need if it's going to be a primary character or didn't feel like it to me. Matt's character (Vysaries or whatever, again horrid at names) though def had a personality there, and looked far more long term. Even the current king etc had more depth.

Looking forward to the next episode and def think it was a good start. If it had been twice as long and a movie I would have considered it a good one.

The problem is far worse, and this isn't going to help almost anyone who was already in really bad situations. A loan taken in 2015, with payments being made till covid started, can have increased by over 2x (for the principle) by 2020. That should not be possible, but it is the reality.

People who had 60k in loans in 2015, have over 150k in loans now, that is due to the way the banks deal with the interest, convert it to principle etc.

So 10k or 20k might help those college drop outs who never got an AA, but anyone who got a BA or Masters degree and is currently drowning in debt, it's not even gonna touch the interest accrued, let alone the base loan.

Dropping the (currently 10%), max of your net income to 5% will at least reduce how much pain the people will be in while paying off their loans for the rest of their lives, but who is to say that won't change in the future?

If you have 100k in loans right now (even if you only started with 40k), the 10-20k forgiveness, even if it goes through, wont' actually make any difference at all for 99.9% of people.

A simple solution is to just flat out forgive any interest left on all loans for all students period, and reduce interest in the future to 2% a year flat (no compounding the interest and making it part of the principle etc).

While that might not help a few people who owe less than 20k as much, it would give a lifeline to people who have been paying back loans for up to a decade and just getting deeper and deeper in debt.

IF you took a loan out for 60k, you should not owe double that, especially if you were making payments all that time, it's just usery and should be illegal.

Also enjoyed it and looking forward to the next episode. Matt was quite good, never liked him as the doctor but he handles this role well. Over all good cast, don't think they are quite hitting the mark with Raenyse or however you spell her name, kinda feel like they are trying to meld Arya with Dayneres, but are just missing something there. Still very promising and she may grow on me as time goes by.

As with all other bikinis, it depends who is wearing it.

Set up your own pizza delivery service, from any pizza place. You get free pizza but don't eat it, so nothing to have tummy problems from (does mean not eating for a bit after working though).

Unlimited moneeeeey!!

You may just be an internet friend but I still hate to hear that your living in a situation you hate for another 3+ months. Have you offered to help with moving costs if he leaves early? You shouldn't have to of course, but maybe that would motivate him. I just isn't worth it to live with someone you don't like that long.

IF you do have to live with him, instead of throwing away the pans, I would just give them to him and have nothign to do with them again. Again, that sucks, but it's better to avoid any antagonistic moves till he is actually gone at least.

I literally refuse to live with anyone who doesn't want me to live with them or that I don't like. It's just not worth the stress, when we already have so much stress in our lives. Dude is just making your life miserable cause he isa jerk, if he makes 60k+ there is no reason at all for him to stay there, and if his gf/fiance is living at a dorm, he could get a place for both of them, and should want to. Dude seems really freaking weird.

Two main streaming services for me are netflix and hbo, and honestly been liking hbo more recently, really enjoying house of dragons, and they have new release movies pretty often (even if I didn't like batman or dune).

If I had to get rid of one it would be netflix at this point, but both are worth keeping for me.

Even if the maid did sexy things as well, I'd still go with chef.

Now if the chef did sexy things as well, i'd marry her.

I just started rewatching GoT today to prepare (not going to start watching the new show till at least a few episodes are out, or perhaps the whole season, so gives me plenty of time to rewatch the original).

I am skipping the last season though and this time will have it end while it still isn't crap and they have not totally ruined all the characters (Except Arya, they didn't totally ruin her, just everyone else).

Funny that Costco was mentioned.

My costco is right across the street from a fairly decent "cheap" pizza place semi-near me called NY vinnies.

NY vinnies has a slightly better quality pizza you can walk out with for $6, or a double pepporoni one for $8. You can toss on extra cheese and it costs $11 after tax.

That is for a whole pie, which is about the same as 4 pieces from Costco which are $2 (might be 2.50 I forget) a pop.

The 8$ one is about the same as costco for about the same price (maybe a bit less if it's 2.50 a slice). The main difference is if you pay more for extra cheese and double pep (I actually get double extra cheese and pep and they hook me up.

Prob is the wait, sometimes it's like an hour, so I call and check before shopping to see when I need to order it. Also, I only eat half of the pizza when I get it (and reheat the other half), while I just get 1 slice from costco, so in reality it's only 2-2.50 at costco, vs 11$ at NY vinnies, but.....it's waaay better than costco with the extra cheese I get on it (worth the 1 hour drive by itself).

Costco's slice is the cheapest way to get a pizza fix, heck 2 of em are less or about $5....and that is enough for anyone to call a meal. Much like their hotdogs they have not raised the prices so it's comparably lower than pretty much everywhere.

Wouldn't go out of my way for a costco slice of pepporoni (and you need that topping as their just cheese is really not very good), but it's a good deal if you are already there (and the 50 cent unlimited drink is pretty decent even if you just get it before shopping slurp on it while doing so, and then refil it before leaving.

And we never heard from Jigsaw again.

That proves that the meat they use is people!!

IT'S PEOPLE!!!

RIP Jigsaw.

If a billionare really wanted to feed the world/hungry, it would take much more then a few billion to do it even for 1 year.

We are almost at 8 billion people on this planet. if you JUST wanted to feed all of them for 1 week, and you could do so for only $10 a person (including costs to ship it/make it/grow or breed it etc) which is insanely low, it would cost about 560 billion dollars.

Even if you said half the people on the planet are well enough off that they would turn their noses up at a free meal......that still would would bankrupt the top 3 people in the world. Two weeks would make all 10 of the richest people in the world broke.

Now, if instead you started creating companies that made food and sold it at cost (including labor etc), that you could do with a few billion and help tons of people. Mark up on most places is so freaking insane, and if you did that, you would force prices down for others as well, dropping the cost of food everywhere pretty much. In the end you would actually help way more people. Top that off by actually paying your employees a decent wage (and it still would probably be half the price food is currently), and you would really make the world a better place.

Amazingly, not one billionare has done anything like that, even though it would be at cost and not actually cost them anything, it just wouldn't make them a huge profit.

I mean alot of places are that much at this point.

Best pizza place in Tacoma area of Washington is Salamonies pizza.

Base pizza is like $24, but toppings are 3$ more each, pretty easy to have your pizza cost about 40$ before tax, and with 11% tax that makes it 45$ easily.

Cut that pizza into 6 large slices (3 on each side) and you are talking $9 a slice.

But yeah, it's worth it, and yeah, I've paid it before.

Also, should be mentioned that ANY pizza delivered by uber eats etc, is gonna hit around $8 or more a slice at this point. Cost to get PAPA MURPHYS pizza delivered to my house is over $40 lol.

I mean that is a shit ton of work for the payout.

IF you have enough money to support yourself while doing it, and you break it up into a normal work week of 40 hours (or you could like watch kids while doing it so you get paid now for that), then it's about 120 weeks of work at 40 hours a week.

Not horrid, you can pop that out it about 2 years, still have weekends off etc. And 1 mill a year is a pretty good paycheck. Not exactly a blast of a job, but I mean you can eat snacks etc while doing it.

So yeah, I'd say most people would do it. Heck even if you could only do it a few hours a day after work and on the weekend, and just popped out 20 hours a week total while living a normal life, you'd still finish it in 4 years and then retire.

Money = power.

It's always better to be in a position of power if possible as humans vary greatly in morals etc, so rich people around you could/would very likely take advantage of you. If nothing else if you are wealthy you could hide it, but have backup if you needed it, and could help others allowing yourself to both have friends, an easy life, and safety.

HOW you spend your money will determine if the poor around you hate or love you, and while the unscrupulous poor people may still try and take advantage of you etc, you will have the resources to defend yourself from them.

Came in here to say "why not both?"

I mean by the time the last season releases some of them could have had kids in the grade they supposedly started the series in lol.

How is this not a freaking option!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAf9Is_b00U&ab_channel=BackpackTV

DirtBasedSoap posted...

these fake Mexican fast food restaurants should be fucking embarrassed labeling any of those sauces as hot. even the hottest ones are so fucking mild. i want atleast one of them to scorch my insides and make me regret eating it the next day.

That is what base taco bell food is for, no sauce needed.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

shout out to my boy Charles Joughin btw

underrated person from history. the dude survived the titanic and was in the 28 degree water for like 2-3 hours (most died of hypothermia in 10-30 minutes max). he got so hammered that night that it kept his blood warm enough to survive and a calm enough mind to not panic in the situation. truly a dude that rocked.

idk why but i find the titanic FASCINATING

the way everything went down is just very very interesting to me. from the survivor stories to the way the ship snapped in half and sank.

I heard he was so drunk even the sharks were afraid of getting alcohol poisoning so they didn't bite him.