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Good cop 8 comments
guest · 6 years ago
Not quite the same, but as someone who had zero car troubles for the longest time and then had my check engine light come on a handful of times randomly I was *PISSED* to find out that the ~$35 fee to find out what it meant at Firestone was something Advanced Auto, Autozone, etc (the parts places) will do for free.
(For those like me who didn't know) They won't test wiring free, but they will test the battery, check engine light, install wiper blades (but really there is zero reason you can't do that yourself), charging marine/motorcycle/garden tool batteries, they'll loan tools, and recycle oil and batteries.
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When a nurse takes up gardening 4 comments
guest · 6 years ago
If I could have a greenhouse in my yard this would be amazing for all my attempted rootings and seedlings instead of crammed together in front of the two windows that get decent sunlight.
Just wait for someone else to die 12 comments
guest · 6 years ago
If I remember correctly it's because he needs pretty much full time and specialized care due to medical issues, she does not. The retirement home she lives in cannot handle the level of care that he is at so he needs to go to that level of assisted living in order to, you know, keep living. She does not need that level of care, and the rooms aren't really designed for two. Think of it as - she needs a primary care physician and he needs the ER, you don't send someone to the ER for a physical and you don't send someone to a PCP for a gunshot wound.
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Bring your boyfriend to help you 6 comments
guest · 6 years ago
It's kinda the reverse of the "How many months have 28 days" answer - All of them have 28, only one only has 28.
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She likes chicken 3 comments
guest · 6 years ago
Heihei is a perfectly fine character, goofy but helps to save the day, and honestly who doesn't love Alan Tudyk.
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Spices in a bazar, Egypt 5 comments
guest · 6 years ago
It should be Indigo Dye (actual dye, not a spice)
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Woman shares texts from man who thought her cancer was contagious 19 comments
guest · 6 years ago
Maybe (trying to give him the benefit of the doubt) he's thinking of HPV, which can cause cancers (cervical, vaginal, penile, rectal, and oral/throat/tongue/tonsils), so you could "catch" cancer from transmission of it, or the potential and reported cases of cancer transmission from a living organ donor, but if he's not remembering all the information he might be incorrectly thinking just a general transmission is possible?
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Bedroom with a View 4 comments
guest · 6 years ago
You know you're an adult with responsibilities when you look at this and first thought is not "What a beautiful view" but is "That must cost a fortune to heat, and any rain or sleet would sound like being in a firing range"
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Can't believe they actually replied 17 comments
guest · 6 years ago
I worked there, a long time ago for about a year back before I realized that if I didn't like a job I could quit and not "be a failure". The boxes come full of the frozen dough because it was much better space-wise and if any broke in transit they could thaw back into a whole.
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Can't believe they actually replied 17 comments
guest · 6 years ago
The dough is not cut to 12 inches.
It comes in big boxes of frozen breadstick shaped dough, definitely much smaller than 12 inches. Then it is allowed to thaw, then proof in the steam - this is where it gets large and voluminous, then it bakes in the 12 inch "loaf" shaped silicone forms and then allowed to cool. If you proof it too long it exceeds the size, if you don't proof it long enough it is smaller all around.
Additionally the "party" subs are three of these frozen breadsticks of dough allowed to thaw then braided and put in the larger silicone forms for proofing and baking then with double meat and double cheese.
No Subway employee cuts dough to size because it's already measured out.
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Ayyyyyyy 13 comments
guest · 6 years ago
Pink used to be for boys, blue for girls. (Pink a variation of red was a strong, lusty color, suitable for boys. Blue was peaceful and calm and thus suitable for girls)
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Wise teacher 5 comments
guest · 6 years ago
Then everybody clapped.
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This doctor was too smart 11 comments
guest · 6 years ago
Yes he invented it because he was uncomfortable doing so this way, and the image leads to the sarcastic comment in the image, but then again the image is of an attractive, healthy looking, young woman.
I don't think most people really want to be doing this to someone with open sores, or say someones' 90 year old grandmother/grandfather, someone with a highly contagious disease, or with a sick and upset thrashing around child. Plus you can move the diaphragm/bell around while paying attention to what you're hearing a lot better than pressing your ear, listening, shuffling the patient or yourself around, repeat, in order to get a better idea of what's going on.
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Past , present and future all summed up 9 comments
guest · 6 years ago
Most surprising to me "Gets a job shoveling dirt in boiler room for $18/hr [in 1988/89 at age 17/18]" That was great money for that sort of job at the time [minimum wage was $3.35 at the time]
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Big Moo is thought to be the largest cow in Australia, standing at 186 centimetres/6ft 1 9 comments
guest · 6 years ago
He. Big Moo is a he, that isn't a set of udders in the image and a simple Googling of him makes it clear he is a he.
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Break that wall 4 comments
guest · 6 years ago
Robin Hood Men in Tights - it's right up there with Space Balls in amazing Mel Brooks movies. Do yourself a favor and watch it tonight! It has comedy, singing, dancing, a kick line, bagel jokes, it's amazing.
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To censor captions 4 comments
guest · 6 years ago
It's the ridiculousness of what is considered ok and what is not by the censors. Ass = whole bottom region (generally ok in art and language without censoring), asshole=orifice (oh noes /s), like this fuck, fucker, etc = profane but not obscene slang term for the act or the person committing the act of sex, mother fucker = someone who engages in incest.
Same reason why they had to edit down Boys Don't Cry to remove the "evidence" of the girlfriend's pleasure, because all the cum jokes in comedy moves are perfectly fine (Something About Mary, Van Wilder, etc. etc. etc.) but show someone with a wet mouth after going down on a girl and it's suddenly a step too far.
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I had to do 4 double-takes. How about you? 8 comments
guest · 6 years ago
Specifically more Ewan McGregor Obi Wan <3
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Hank is just pretending 3 comments
guest · 6 years ago
As a parent I *hate* that girls shorts are so freaking short. Not just teenagers, not just tweens, it starts as soon as they have shorts available. Toddler shorts - boys: pretty close to the knee, girls: barely past their crotch. Send them to daycare with shorts and a t-shirt or a long dressy shirt - "Is [your child] wearing pants?!" "...No, I'm sending her in in just a t-shirt." It slowly becomes a hunt to find the gender neutral patterns and colors of boys shorts for them.
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The best way to go up the stairs 12 comments
guest · 6 years ago
Yes but support beams in walls aren't laid out like this, so all the kid has to do is keep growing then one day they aren't really paying attention 'cause they do this so often and the hold they grip/put their foot on peels away with a chunk of the drywall off and they tumble down the stairs.
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Japanese cemetery 3 comments
guest · 6 years ago
For those not going to do the google image search of the pic link, it's the Makomanai Takino Cemetery in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo. And those bushes are 150,000 lavender plants surrounding the 44 foot tall Buddha.
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It's just the high ping 4 comments
guest · 6 years ago
WIth "standard" multiples (twins and triplets) they schedule you a due date that is pretty close to the standard due date, just a little early. For these "large" multiples they get the babies to a safe weight and then do the c-section early so you're having a total of x[babies] at 2-4lbs each getting pretty close to the weight of a large standard baby (obviously the larger number and heavier weight it will surpass, but it's not like they're having multiple 8lb babies.
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I think I stay too long in the shower 26 comments
guest · 6 years ago
You are very correct, and not every "African American" is black (first two examples that spring to mind Charlize Theron and Elon Musk), and not every black person is African American (had a friend who was very adamant they were *Not* African American, they were Jamaican) but until the language is eventually settled (as in the past...50? years it's cycled through at least three main terms) that's what it'll be for the moment. It's no different than the Caucasian, Caucasian non-Hispanic specification for some.
Real democracy right there. 58 comments
guest · 6 years ago
But even if someone were to try and make such a stipulation they would not be able to see proof. Voting is done individually, cellphones/photography is not allowed. They could just as easily say they did it and vote for someone else while reaping the "rewards" as having their vote bought.
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This is a rollercoaster 14 comments
guest · 6 years ago
Long TLDR: Ronald Opus loaded a gun attempting to get (father) to shoot (mother) as that's how they commonly fought. (Father) thought it was an unloaded gun, shot at but missed (mother) but killed his son (Ronald) who had just leapt from the roof of a 10 story building because the matricide attempt had failed. Had the gun (Ronald) loaded been unloaded as per usual he would have lived because a recently installed net would have saved him from the fall.
Short TLDR: Dude loaded the gun that accidentally killed him during what would have been a failed suicide attempt.
Age is just a number 16 comments
guest · 6 years ago
Thanks, but I won't take a pap photo (trying to find someone looking their worst) of a person as a sign of how they've aged. No one looks good grimacing, and look at any "without makeup" style photos to see people who are beautiful but not going through the bother of looking immaculate every minute of the day, you'll see a similar difference.
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North sentinal island 30 comments
guest · 6 years ago
My mind knows I have no interest in ever trying to visit North Sentinel Island but damned if this doesn't read like a challenge and poke at my mind saying "We don't back down from challenges".
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Free ginuwine 13 comments
guest · 6 years ago
There is also B.S. chatter about him saying that he would not date a trans woman is "transphobic" (which literally it is not, he is not afraid, he just does not have a desire/sexual/intimate relationship preference - it may not make people happy to have someone not interested in them for something they can change [hair color, fashion, to some degree weight, gender role, etc.] or things they can't change [height, chromosomally not physically sex, innate personality, etc.) but that in and of itself is not something that makes you an -ist, or -phobic) .
So not only is he being victim blamed for harassment but he is also having libelous accusations thrown against him.
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Science b*tch! 19 comments
guest · 6 years ago
"Pluto <1 second" FTFY
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The plural of "Octopus" 14 comments
guest · 6 years ago
Learned about this from Orson Scott Card's book Lost Boys (which is not in fact the novel version of the K. Sutherland movie as young me thought it might be)
Pom-poms 5 comments
guest · 6 years ago
100% expected this to go Crocodile Dundee, was heartwarmingly disappointed.
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Actual crystal cake. Slice, anybody? 16 comments
guest · 6 years ago
Seriously, if you can bake a box cake mix, and can manage not to burn yourself with molten sugar it would not take much to do this. Make/buy cake, icing, colored sugar - layer those, press sugar against the sides of the cake. Boil sugar and water until the thermometer reaches hard-crack. Pour into the silicone mold. Let it cool. Push it out of the mold and put it on top of the rest. Boom, pretty, crunchy, too sweet cake. Not, hard.
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Actual crystal cake. Slice, anybody? 16 comments
guest · 6 years ago
It's not nuts ;p The sanding sugar is just small sugar, it can be tinted and flavored, it's obvious there's something pressed on the outside of the cake (think of it as easy as putting colored sugar sprinkles on Christmas cookies - it's for looks, not taste as it makes things too sweet and...crunchy-ish.
The 'amethyst' is some sort of hard candy. Rock candy (lots and lots of sugar and some color dissolved in boiling water then allowed to re-form crystals) usually has small crystals but this cake looks fairly small due to the size of the fork.
Food safe silicone mold can be used for chocolate or candy and that one on etsy looks pretty spot on for the top of this image. Make that same liquid sugar but heat it until it's at the hard crack stage (basically all the water is gone at this stage and any candy formed will be hard, like toffee, lollypops, etc. - it's a stage on a candy thermometer) pour it in the mold, let it cool, pop it out and put it on top.
This is pretty, not tasty.
Actual crystal cake. Slice, anybody? 16 comments
guest · 6 years ago
It should be fairly simple:
It looks like chocolate cake with
a layer of buttercream as the white filling,
some purple (possibly black and purple mix) sanding sugar/sugar crystal sprinkles on the outside of the cake portion.
Then the top either is rock candy (sugar that has been allowed to form big crystals with purple coloring), or even easier - a silicone mold on etsy "Silicone Gem Soap Mold" so I'm sure they're around elsewhere with hard candy (made from sugar with purple and black coloring) done well to get the mix of amethyst shades placed on top.
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You did the right thing 20 comments
guest · 6 years ago
A child doesn't need meat, but they do need a diet that consists of enough vitamins, proteins, carbs, fats that they will eat to help maintain proper health.
The stories you hear about the fringe idiot vegans giving their infants no formula/breast milk/dairy is child abuse, yes. A balanced diet with meats and dairy and vegetables/fruits is easiest to find the right mix.
If she's going to force veganism on her child then she needs to consult with a pediatrician, a nutritionist, and learn how to cook things that he'll eat.
It's just as easy to find junk things for you that are vegan (most Bac'n/bac'o bits [textured veggie/soy protein, salt, and smoke], Duncan Hines icings, Jello instant pudding mix, Ritz crackers + PB & J, icing free poptarts, nutter butters, granola bars, krispy kreme fruit pies, Speculoos cookie butter, BK & ChickFilA fries, chipotle sofrita). Not saying he should be given a diet consisting of just these but they're easy to point out things that aren't "bland"
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Thank you for risking it 9 comments
guest · 6 years ago
Not really anything special. When people are hungry, truly hungry and not just "oh it might be time for the next meal" they will try just about anything.
There are toxic/noxious things that humans have found ways to prepare in a way to eat (acorns, fugu, yuca, various beans when raw, some raw or underripe nightshade veggies - eggplant, potato, tomatillo). Even mushrooms have a risk because there are look-alikes, so if you're foraging and not 100% sure you have the right mushroom it's best not to eat it.
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Car for wheelchair users 15 comments
guest · 6 years ago
Even a minor fender bender, where you weren't smushed - it has no passenger side door, doesn't appear to have a drivers side, so if you get rear ended you're trapped until the jaws of life can pry open that back lift.
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Waiting for your flight? Why not learn CPR? 8 comments
guest · 6 years ago
Stayin Alive isn't the only song - npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/04/03/521913341/what-do-hanson-and-madonna-have-in-common-hits-ideal-for-saving-a-life
Achy Breaky Heart, Mmmbop, Another One Bites the Dust, Girls Just Want to Have Fun are all also in that range.
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This slide has speed boosters 12 comments
guest · 6 years ago
I remember my elementary school had one entirely made of the rollers, coated in some sort of paint or plastic, and it had a wave shape so you went down a little, had about a hand length of flat space then then the bigger length. It. Was. Awesome. Yes you got fingers jammed but even as a first grader I remember the challenge we all did of "Who can run up it?" if you were very skilled and fast you could make it up to that flat, no one could make it all the way up. Also fun was using your hands to start the rollers rolling for that speed boost then launched yourself down.
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Cinderella's Castle At Walt Disney World 1 comments
guest · 6 years ago
It is beautiful but you can't rent it, it's by invitation only.
Homeowner who was tired of his packages being stolen, rigs a trap for the next thief 4 comments
guest · 6 years ago
Remember - even if they deserve it, which they do, - You cannot legally booby trap things like this with dangerous/deadly force. It'll get you sued/jailed. If all your left with is non-dangerous things to startle or annoy remember that the waste of life stealing your things will get pissed and then take it out on your house. It's a no-win situation other than setting up cameras in a way to capture their face even if they try to keep out of screen view, and preferably the car they're in so you can turn it over to the police.
With BS like this, if your packages/mail continually get stolen, you just have to resort to paying for a post office box and having things delivered there.
The best place for a cactus 4 comments
guest · 6 years ago
There are lots of these for sale on etsy and amazon, right now the amazon ones are much higher in price than they were a few months ago, they fit small plants and are quite cute, and you can paint them if you wish to be more cartoon accurate.
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Best scene from my childhood 26 comments
guest · 6 years ago
You can always add another song to the mix, it's not as good as Bowie, but The Atomic Fireballs made the song Man with the Hex (it was on the American Pie soundtrack) which uses the lines in a swing revival style.
Be careful who you donate to 23 comments
guest · 6 years ago
It's just annoying how they pick the "good" stuff out and sell it auction style on their website. "Oh hey, your kid is just getting into Legos...holy goodness Lego cost how much...maybe Goodwill- OMG that's almost retail price!"
Be careful who you donate to 23 comments
guest · 6 years ago
He didn't (it is now General Andre Cox and Commissioner Silvia Cox were appointed in 2013, replacing Basset and his wife). Long term, high position, army receive a *very* generous pension and health care (military dot com /benefits/military-pay/the-military-retirement-system.html). But when he was he got 13k, his wife was compensated, and they were provided housing and car use, in 2011 that total compensation was valued at almost $80, $53k of that as benefits. So they were by no imaginable means living on 13k, that probably wasn't even close to the taxes they paid.
Probably the neighborhood of tomorrow 15 comments
guest · 6 years ago
Most HOA's will not allow you to have a garden in your front yard, newer neighborhoods will often limit the allowed size of them in your backyard without (hard to get) HOA approval to preserve the appearance of the community.
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Its always a baby that sits there 7 comments
guest · 6 years ago
Also if you don't speak the primary language of the flight crew they're not going to let you stay in that row, even if others in the row do. (Made sense as in an emergency they're not going to be translating instructions or the need to open the door, they will be translating to exit - either way it let my husband and I have the row to ourselves) Never have I ever had the amount of leg room in that picture on an emergency exit row, it's a little extra space but not that much, my husband is 6'5" tall and his knees still touch the seat in front of us when it is straight up every time so it's not just a subjective/imagined thing.
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2 different types of badger 11 comments
guest · 6 years ago
Not quite the difference between the US and Australia's possums but still surprising.
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Well... He's got a point 5 comments
guest · 6 years ago
Heart, nerve, brain, ovum, the cones in your eyes, various ones last a lifetime; certain ones like fat cells last 10-12 years on average, some have just a few days in their lifespan (sperm, colon, etc.), but if you're talking simple external dermal layers (skin), white and red blood cells, and so on, the 7 year will completely cycle through them.
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Namaste 6 comments
guest · 6 years ago
This is not a problem "crossing his arms" it's a problem "having one person on his right that is significantly shorter than him and a person on the left who is closer to his height".
If he had someone on each side who was relatively the same height as him, like the second picture, his arms would cross more naturally (comfortably) and a little further away from his body and he would not be in such an awkward/uncomfortable pose.
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