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RTDNTOTO 🐻 Random Thoughts Deserving No Thread Of Their Own 19 (2024)

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Something like 40% of my internal thoughts feel kinda sociopathic to the out-loud version of me. I wonder. I'm stealing a donut in 3-2-1....gotta go.
 
ursus said:
Something like 40% of my internal thoughts feel kinda sociopathic to the out-loud version of me. I wonder. I'm stealing a donut in 3-2-1....gotta go.
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My worst nightmare would be someone who could read my mind.

old timey baseball conan obrien GIF by Team Coco
 
MD Planner said:
To be fair, 6% was never REQUIRED, but people just didn't realize the commission was always negotiable. The industry did a great job of creating this false understanding that 6% was the norm.
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What's crazy is that I've been seeing more realtors lately push higher commissions. We have a couple of the bigger names locally that were asking 8-10% or requiring some additional fees. Its not like we're low on realtors either.
 
Started this week with a police manhunt in my neighborhood. Helicopter and cars everywhere. I guess someone was involved in a hit and run and fled on foot. Nice way to wake up at midnight.
 
You can take the dude out of the office, but you can't take planning out of the dude.

AIB Lebowski
 
joscoffee said:
That's really interesting, good point. I bet the big builders/sellers will have a field day. Maybe one effect will be fewer "for sale by owner" properties?
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So my mom sold my childhood house last year (can't say I blame her--she doesn't need a 5-bedroom house) and moved to a great neighborhood on the other end of town.

Problem is, the neighbors report that the new people that live there are complete a**holes. Can't say why that bothers me, but it does.

Jim
 
DVD said:
Most people get bonuses at work. Work for a city and you get a $200 sonic toothbrush as a "benefit". I'll take it. It is kind of a cool toothbrush.
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I got a fancy electric toothbrush from my employer as part of a raffle at a health fair about 10 years ago. I looked it up at the time and it was like $180 or something. I had no idea that electric toothbrushes were even that expensive. I've grown to really appreciate it.

Maister said:

When I'm slow on the draw
and I need something to chaw
I hanker for a hunk of cheese!
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I sing that to my kids way too much. They used to think I was just making it up until I showed them the video a while back. I have a feeling that they still don't really believe it was a real thing.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
I got a fancy electric toothbrush from my employer as part of a raffle at a health fair about 10 years ago. I looked it up at the time and it was like $180 or something. I had no idea that electric toothbrushes were even that expensive. I've grown to really appreciate it.
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I have never used an electric toothbrush until a few weeks ago. Wife got it online for about 7 bucks. I love it.
 
Doohickie said:
This happens several times a year in our hood.
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What kind of neighborhood am I living in that people like Doohickie live in the same kind of place?

TOFB said:
I have never used an electric toothbrush until a few weeks ago. Wife got it online for about 7 bucks. I love it.
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The sonic toothbrush is so much better than the electric, but I don't know if it's $200 better. Also:

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There's a gallon of milk sitting on the storm grate near my house, it's kind of odd....
 
I was on the radio yesterday for a talk show and all I could hear in my voice were my tonsils - I wanted to take them out some years back but my ENT said the health insurance company said is was elective surgery so they wouldn't cover it
 
Faust_Motel said:
Got my new 23oz denim (like cardboard) last night and starting the break-in at the office today. Oof.
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What are you wearing?

20oz is my heaviest (a pair of super slubby Oni "Secret Wash" straight fit) and I was surprised at how quickly they broke in. The 12 to 14 ounce range is generally my sweet spot but it was fun to try something a bit heavier.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
What are you wearing?

20oz is my heaviest (a pair of super slubby Oni "Secret Wash" straight fit) and I was surprised at how quickly they broke in. The 12 to 14 ounce range is generally my sweet spot but it was fun to try something a bit heavier.
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Gustins. I've had good luck with them- this is the first pair I've ordered with the ... ahem.. straight leg as I have come to appreciate a bit more room. Out of the box, they were so thick I couldn't get the top button unbuttoned.

I have a now 7 year-old pair of the ones they did with kevlar reinforcement that they called 24 oz.- but I bought those in the "slim" and an inch smaller in the waist- they still fit and look good but the rise is low and pulls the waistband down over my hips-not super comfortable or a really great look. Awesome fades, though:

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I do wish they would do a slightly higher rise- I think it would help the fit and not needing to size the waist up so much. But I'm happy with this new pair. I also grabbed an on-sale pair of their linen slubby pants and they look and feel great but need massive hemming. I guess I have time before summer to get them done though.
 
Faust_Motel said:
Gustins. I've had good luck with them- this is the first pair I've ordered with the ... ahem.. straight leg as I have come to appreciate a bit more room. Out of the box, they were so thick I couldn't get the top button unbuttoned.

I have a now 7 year-old pair of the ones they did with kevlar reinforcement that they called 24 oz.- but I bought those in the "slim" and an inch smaller in the waist- they still fit and look good but the rise is low and pulls the waistband down over my hips-not super comfortable or a really great look. Awesome fades, though:

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I do wish they would do a slightly higher rise- I think it would help the fit and not needing to size the waist up so much. But I'm happy with this new pair. I also grabbed an on-sale pair of their linen slubby pants and they look and feel great but need massive hemming. I guess I have time before summer to get them done though.
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I've always heard good things about Gustin, especially in terms of quality:cost. But yeah, lower rise jeans (and pants in general) have always been the bane of my existence. I am on the shorter side of things to begin with so lower rise pants just make me look that much shorter. I've had really good luck with a lot of the Japanese brands that go for the retro and repro fits as they tend to have higher rises (Warehouse, TCB, Ooe, Real McCoys). Naked & Famous always has some cool washes but I've never found a fit that I really like.

The fades on those Gustins in your picture look pretty good. Before the pandemic I had one pair of denim (a basic Levis 501) that I had had for years and was basically falling apart and which I rarely wore anymore. A buddy and I were texting back and forth about clothes and he sent me a link to some insanely expensive Samurai "cotton project" jeans and I was intrigued and went on a bit of a denim shopping spree over the following few months since I had nothing better to do. I went from that 1 pair to about 20 pair in pretty short order. I wasn't wearing any of them often enough to develop any fading so I consigned a few pair and then put a few more away into storage in my garage for later days and got myself down to about 5 pair that I rotate through on a pretty regular basis.

Five years ago I never knew what kind of rabbit hole denim could be!
 
luckless pedestrian said:
I was on the radio yesterday for a talk show and all I could hear in my voice were my tonsils - I wanted to take them out some years back but my ENT said the health insurance company said is was elective surgery so they wouldn't cover it
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I think almost everybody thinks their voice sounds more nasally than they expect; wonder why?
 
WSU MUP Student said:
I went from that 1 pair to about 20 pair in pretty short order.
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:omg:

The really good fades on those jeans I pictured are the honeycombs on the backs of the calves, since I didn't have these hemmed and just let them stack.

I wouldn't bother with Gustins (or get a cheap pair on Poshmark to try) if you don't like the lower rise. No pair I have had (jeans, slacks, or otherwise) comes up as high as I'd really like.
 
dandy_warhol said:
How do dual working parents with kid(s) manage? :disoriented:
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We are dual working parents with kid (1) and all I can say is we drive a lot more than we wished. We are both public-sector folks so not a lot of money or anything and we make it work by both having slightly-flexible schedules during the day and by working a lot on nights and weekends to make up for it.
 
Faust_Motel said:
We are dual working parents with kid (1) and all I can say is we drive a lot more than we wished. We are both public-sector folks so not a lot of money or anything and we make it work by both having slightly-flexible schedules during the day and by working a lot on nights and weekends to make up for it.
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It is such a juggling act. My schedule is semi-flexible but Hubby's really isn't which means all the extraneous driving and kid stuff falls to me, while I am also working full-time. It doesn't help that I am driving out and about in the community for my job which just adds the time in the car. Ugh. We moved to Europe for the less car-centric culture and ability to walk and train places but our jobs and living situation don't allow for it.
 
^^^We were in the same boat but I was the one with flexibility & The Girl had several activities. I benefitted greatly from the flexibility I was given at the job. We only had the one kid too.


Times were different back in the day, but there was 2 years when both my brothers & I played baseball, on 3 different teams (ages) on 3 different fields @ 3 separate times. Moms taxi was the only transportation...poor mom.
 
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