TrueBlueGED
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Interesting college football scenario: If Georgia Tech loses to Georgia this weekend, Georgia is favored by 13 at home, Tech will play Florida St in the ACC championship game with only 2 possible bowl outcomes. If they Beat Florida State, they will head to the BCS Orange Bowl, if they lose, they will be completely ineligible for a bowl game. Pretty steep drop from conference champion, to losing season.
I think that about sums up why I both love and loathe college football.
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So let me get this right. The NBA has enough sense to postpone the Knicks-Nets game because of issues with public transportation....but Bloomberg thinks it's a good idea to hold the marathon and close streets and divert first responders? Common sense really is in short supply these days.
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So Obama was in Jersey yesterday telling people they would "come back stronger". Am I the only one who gets bothered by this rhetoric? You have just gone through an incredibly destablizing event. Your house is gone, you're in a shelter, your bank account is taking it on the chin, your job may be gone. How does one come back stronger? At best, you are lucky to hang on to the threads of your life. It strikes me as such BS to stand up there and look at people whose life has just been decimated to say, you will be stronger. Meanwhile, he jumps back on his chopper and has all the accoutrements of his job, and these folks go back to the shelter and eat an MRE and worry about how they will get through tomorrow. You are about to enter a protracted battle with your insurance company over whether your damage is wind or water. Is it really that big a comfort to know that you can fill out a form to get a loan?
I'm also bothered by the reporting from yesterday. Instead of focusing on why Christie and Obama were at the shore, all the press can report on today is their bromance.
I totally understand your first point. If I just lost my home the last thing I would want is somebody who has never met me telling me everything will be better!
I think your second point is a bigger issue though. How sad of a commentary on the state of our country is it that a Republican governor and Democratic president "playing nice" to help millions impacted by a natural disaster is a news story, let alone a major news story with several days of legs? How is this news? Shouldn't this be the bare minimum of what we expect our elected leaders to do? Truly sad, IMO.
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PM'd you back.
RG&E was refusing to tell me or my apartment management all day what the status of power restoration would be. They've now updated it to midnight....on Friday.
Well look on the bright side: think of all the exercise you're getting bailing out!
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This just in.
Pro-Assad nutbars in Syria have taken 'credit' for Sandy, with the help of their friends in Iran.
http://edition.cnn.c....html?hpt=hp_t1
Just when I did not think it was possible, the whack jobs over there just got whackier.
I think I'd rather the whack jobs have a nuke than a weather machine :o
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Because I totally forgot about them. That's awful on my part. Just plain awful I like that team too and think they will be very exciting. Very embarrased. I'd actually put them at 4 and bump everyone else down (so Minnesota no longer makes it). I can't believe I forgot them.
(By the way, a Memphis/Nuggets playoff series would be unbelievable)
Well that explains it. I agree, a Grizz/Nuggets series would be *Charles Barkley voice* fantastic.
No real interest in the NBA, but ...
... Toronto as 7th seed in the East ... :w00t: .
The East stinks. My first thought was "no way"....but then I looked at the conference. It's very possible.
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The NBA season starts tonight so I thought I would make some predictions and would love to hear your guys' thoughts.
First Round:
1 Miami over 8 Chicago
2 Boston over 7 Toronto
6 New York over 3 Indiana
4 Atlanta over 5 Brooklyn
1 Lakers over 8 Minnesota
2 Spurs over 7 Jazz
3 OKC over 6 Portland
4 Memphis over 5 Clippers
Good predictions overall, and largely mirrors my own minus a seeding change here or there...with one exception: how do you not have the Nuggets in the playoffs at all? To me they're head and shoulders better than the Jazz. I also don't know if Minnesota can make it given the injuries to Rubio and Love. I like Golden State or Houston to surprise and grab the 8 seed.
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Sorry for everyone who got nailed. Buffalo hit a sweet pocket. The storm hit the coast so fast that the front end gapped away from the center and states west of us are getting the stuff we were modled to with the 30-50mph winds. The front still is supposed to pass through here, but it will be a baby by then.
NYC is a mess. I've got friends with a 50 foot tree in their building, and a cousin 4 blocks from the Hudson in zone B who was stranded without power.
8 million households without power, including bottom 1/3 of Manhattan.
And I don't mind teasing, but considering the ramifications of what just happened and some people telling everyone not to worry and it is all hype....it's borderline retarded.
Not recognizing that we're mocking the hysteria in Buffalo is more than borderline retarded. Nobody has made jokes or downplayed the danger where it was actually going to be dangerous.
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Ahh yes. The DC earthquake meme revived.
THAT'S where I saw the picture before! I knew I had seen it, just couldn't put my finger on where. You're a life saver (no really, this is the kind of thing that would bug me all day) :beer:
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No really, I can see the sun trying to peek out and I had a stack of chairs on the patio that didn't even blow over.
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Stunned the power is still on. Wind is crazy... Eye is now projected to pass right by us in MD. Next several hours are going to be the real deal for us... Have widespread power outages in my area.
Love the photo of Statue of Liberty. That's a keeper... Could be used by loser on 8 Nov...
That's the Statue of Liberty? Silly me, I thought it was Drane :angel: :P
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So getting married and honeymooning on Sanibel Island was a good idea this week? ;-)
Congrats on the marriage!
And despite my cynicism of those panicking unnecessarily in some places, I do want to wish the very best for those in the danger zone.
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Making the Tigers look silly. Can't get a run to save their lives. Giants pitching is just killer.
It's obvious to me the Yankees did make the World Series...they're just wearing Detroit's uniforms.
If ND finishes this season undefeated and does not get to play in the BCS title game, it will be unjust. ND should be ranked No. 2 right now, not Kansas State or Oregon. Now that ND beat Oklahoma (I was rooting for OU) last night, I really, really want to see an Alabama-ND matchup in January.
As a ND fan, I hope for divine intervention and Alabama losing before then. That team, particularly the defense, terrifies me.
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Statement game by ND. Should silence alot of detractors.
Huge win! Should be #3 this week. Just need to keep winning and hope Kstate loses one.
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Homeowners have a ready supply of water even if the water pressure drops. Hot water tanks all have a valve on the bottom of them. If the fecal matter were to hit the air circulation device and we had no electricity and no water pressure I'd still have 40 gallons of fresh potable water at my disposal. If I'm in a situation where that wouldn't be enough I'd hope there would be a national evacuation effort underway for my area.
Well, I'll just go ahead and add that to the growing list of useful things I didn't know
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Notre Dame - Oklahoma tonight. I'm literally shaking from excitement already.
Our first legitimate shot being among the national elite in at least a decade.
Go IRISH!
GO IRISH!
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Well here's the real kicker: why do people always wait to stock up?
My parents always had supplies ready year round. At least the bare minimums like a dozen gallon jugs of bottled water, powdered milk, batteries, candles and canned foods. Not to mention the luxury of a generator and gas for it, and chopped and dried wood in the shed to have fires to heat the living room and cook over.
In my apartment I keep a bunch of pork n beans, jugs of water, batteries, and those little green propane cylinders for the portable grill. Obviously we're probably going to be less prepared since space is limited, but it's not hard to keep something around all the time. It's a one time-expense that you might never need!
Bottled water is another pet peeve of mine. Completely and totally unnecessary under normal circumstances. Get a Brita or Pur filter and save yourself a crapton of money...I 100% fundamentally do not understand people who use bottled water as their primary drinking source (not saying you are, just in general). Most of the bottled water is the exact same thing that comes out of your tap anyway. I mean bottled water is a relatively new phenomenon....what the hell did people do 30 years ago? Die? Nope.
Edit: As to the substance of your post, I completely agree. It's always smart to have extra non-perishable food on hand and makes total sense.
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I really don't mean to offend anybody, but this culture of panic we have is ridiculous. Every little storm people freak out and stock up. Having worked at Wegmans for 12 years, I know for a fact we absolutely CRUSH projections when bad weather is predicted....and by bad, I mean as mild as prediction of 2-4" of snowfall. It's one thing to stock up and be fully prepared if you're going to be directly hit by a hurricane....it's another to freak out over a few inches of rain and high winds or a few inches of snow in an area that gets it all the time. Along the Eastern coastline? I get it. In Buffalo? Sorry, but no, this isn't the rapture, or even the Blizzard of '77. And yes, some of this rant is brought to you by the fact I just worked a nightmare day stocking enough bottled water to survive Hurricane Andrew.
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Got the job. It's nothing groundbreaking but boy does it feel good to be back in the working world again. Thank you all for your good mojo :lol:
Congrats! :thumbsup:
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Notre Dame!
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So assplosion gets through the filter...
I wonder what else does too
Asswipe
Assman ... That ones for you Cosmo
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Bigass
Dumbass
Assbackward
Tightass
Seinfeld references are always welcome! :beer:
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OK, the facility is shutting down in a couple months. I get that some people aren't going to give a sh!t. I even have sympathy for the feeling. But I just walked into the bathroom and someone had a full out assplosion in one of the stalls. Made me want to puke. And why? Was that your sh!tting on them, like they are sh!tting on you moment? All you have done is made the janitors' day suck. And give the rest of the almost 400 employees here one less hole to use until the janitor staff gets here. And the rest of the joint stinks now too.
Feck you you filthy, selfish bastage. The only folks you affected are the ones in the same boat as you are.
Very, very valid complaint. Heck, I get angry when somebody doesn't give a courtesy flush to get rid of the faintest skid marks, let alone what you're describing (both in the literal and symbolic sense).
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Dark has definitely made my day more awesome with the voiceovers. Well done :thumbsup:
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Especially since we now have, you know, factual information, telling us the deals actually aren't any better than later in the season.