Most likely Express is the compromise outlet that they're willing to fund for their ladies.
Or, is there some fluky thing about Express having sizes for super-tall guys? If it's the mass-market reasonably fashionable brand that's going to have your size if you're 6'7', that'd explain it.
Also plausible! I think we have this covered.
I think they just have Express-grade fashion taste.
Also also, a lot of these guys end up broke and it's actually really depressing.
This is going to get racist, isn't it?
My assumption was the same as LB's. I am not convinced ogged is really on-trend, but what do I know?
No time to blog, but heh to this: https://twitter.com/Soccerpolitics/status/742516213075615745
And endorse Drum's Trump/Nazi post.
I read the twitter feed.
Some people need to rewatch Triumph of the Will. The Trump Rally is not that and won't ever be Nuremberg.
Maybe part of what is scary is that just as that kind of discipline is no longer available on the right, any countering organization is not available on the left.
Trump: Hitler without the class.
Stephen Curry has been a "brand ambassador"/endorser of Express. Peer pressure to shop there among the NBAers?
11 reminds me, there are constant Express ads in Chicago with the new star of the Cubs, Kris Bryant. I guess this is their niche.
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Well, don't want to hijack this thread into politics, and who broke the 40 rule, but anyone who wants to get a clue as to what is going on with Trump, what kinds of tools are available to right and left based on material conditions, might try
Riot Strike Riot 2016, written by Joshua Clover, poet and communist. And Jodi Dean.
Blurb: "Rioting was the central form of protest in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and was supplanted by the strike in the early nineteenth century. It returned to prominence in the 1970s, profoundly changed along with the coordinates of race and class."
Drum is a bourgeois idiot.
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PS: Will be really pissed if Cleveland pulls this out. PPS: How the fuck did the Rangers become the 2nd best team in baseball? Get Darvish back by fall, and they become monsters.
Maybe they just buy enough sets of clothes they don't have to do laundry?
I'm in the process of wearing this faux leather Express jacket until it disintegrates. Best jacket in years. (My taste isn't even basic, it's nonexistent, but the jacket has somehow become a second skin. Other than this and the other of the 2-for-1 jacket purchase, I own a pair of paisley Express leggings from 1992. I might have played basketball in them.)
But: personal finance. Landlords, the IRS, and mad, ever-expanding unquenchable desires for a different life are forcing us to be more frugal. Everyone loves the stories of colossal savings and life transformation, but here is the thing: they make life seem unbearably boring. You think about money all the fucking time, at least for however long it takes to declare victory. Has anyone here done any of these intensive-frugality experiments? I did one for six months in my 20s and the results were indeed impressive, and I don't remember it being all I ever thought about. Is that monomania just an artifact of seeing people blog about it, say? Indeed, is there any writing on the subject that's eloquent and not deadly?
8 Let me! I've got a post in mind and I was going to cite the Kevin Drum article.
Now I've done it...
15: There was that Harvard debt guy who blogged about paying off his MBA loans in a year that we linked to a couple of times, maybe five years back? He sounded sort of depressingly bro-ish, but the extreme frugality thing he was doing didn't seem monomanical exactly.
Speaking of basketball players and money -- I smiled at this story:
Several members of the Cleveland Cavaliers decided to pass on purchasing tickets [for friends and family] to Games 1 and 2 in Oakland, California, after they were upset about the price the Golden State Warriors were charging and the location of the seats, sources told ESPN.
The Warriors offered the Cavaliers lower-level tickets, in the corners of the arena, to buy for their friends and family for $1,300 each. Last year, those tickets were about half that price, sources said.
18: He followed us home, but we couldn't keep him.
Can't speak as to the men's clothing, but I really like the dress pants at the Express. I think they're made by the same people who do Victoria's Secret catalog dress pants.
life seem unbearably boring.
Talking out of my ass because not particularly frugal, but: I think that the biggest issue is social life. Doing stuff with other people usually winds up costing something. If you always turn down invitations, eventually they will stop coming.
That said, as long as you yourself don't have tastes that incline to stupid luxury, and have similar friends, reasonably-priced getting together is manageable. Possibly this means letting the friendship with Dikembe go.
Has anyone here done any of these intensive-frugality experiments? I did one for six months in my 20s and the results were indeed impressive, and I don't remember it being all I ever thought about.
I've never tried intensive-frugality (just average frugality) and I would say (1) It definitely took more mental energy. There are all sorts of opportunities to trade time for money; but you have to keep an eye out for them. I'm not being frugal at the moment, and it's very nice to not feel like I have to be constantly monitoring. (2) Some forms of frugality get more difficult as you get older -- I feel like, for example, eating right or having a decent mattress become more important as you age. (3) I'd agree with lw's point about social life.
18 was the thing I was just reading, in fact, since someone I'm close to is starting an MBA this fall. He seems to have been a lot more invested in the life of steady-state overconsumption than I ever have been, and his frugality seems to be more or less its mirror image. My pathologies are probably just too different. I always did like "Your Money or Your Life." Maybe an account specifically by artists trying to save money to make time for art is the thing to seek out.
18: Wasn't one of the points that the frugality was only by comparison with his social set? Like, having people over for beers and pizza instead of spending $1,000 in one night at a cocktail bar?
Only $1000 for cocktails for his friends? What a loser
If you are a real friend, you won't care if they only buy you well drinks.
more importantly, who is the beefcake factory of clothing stores?
You think about money all the fucking time, at least for however long it takes to declare victory.
Likewise dieting. The amount of thought it takes is an additional annoyance.
I'm constitutionally frugal, and it's kind of awful. I worry about money far more than I need to worry about money, and in the back of my mind I feel an intense need to prepare to live in a cardboard box. The instinct has served me well financially--I have managed to save between 5-85% of my stipend every year in grad school, but it isn't a pleasant way to live. I hate spending money at restaurants and bars, and I find the process of tipping so stressful that I outsource social spending to my boyfriend. As in, I'll give him a $20 and tell him to buy me drinks with it or pay for my meal, rather than handle the money myself. It helps me relax and enjoy the moment to not have to physically watch money be spent. I've gotten less miserly as I've gotten older (and developed an income)--as a small child, I saved my allowance to pay for college, and as a teen I would walk three miles home from school rather than spend $1 for youth bus fare if I'd left my bus pass at home. I have a major problem with spending savings, even if I've saved them for the express purpose of having them available to spend later.
My big frugality thing this year is not buying any clothes (except for underwear), and I while there have been times I've been tempted, it hasn't been that hard. I don't really live in a neighborhood where there's a lot of shopping temptation (though they just opened a Marshall's, so that's changing). It's hard to avoid the lifestyle creep most of my friends are indulging in, even though our incomes haven't gone up. People now take uber instead of public transit for 90 minutes, or buy yoga memberships even though we can do free yoga through the gym, and go to trendy bars that require an uber rather than drink in the neighborhood dive bars etc. I have to say, it's hard to be poor but middle class in your 30s, because it's less socially acceptable to do the sorts of scrappy things people expect you to do when you're poor in your mid 20s.
Man, if I made $2 million a year, my wardrobe would be insane.
I also save a ton of money relative to other women by not really spending money on grooming or anything femme. I don't wear makeup, have my boyfriend cut my hair, shave my legs sporadically with men's disposable bic razors, buy cheap shampoo, use no other hair products, and moisturize with a giant bottle of drugstore moisturizer.* I've never had a manicure or pedicure. (I do own some cheap nail polish and I paint my own nails occasionally). The makeup I do own I keep for years. My lipstick is 10 years old, and I have 12 year old lip gloss. I do replace my eye make up more frequently, but I keep it around for 2-3 years before replacing it, not the recommended 6 months.
*My one luxury is I bought some $15 retinol cream, which lasts about a year and does seem to reduce eye and forehead wrinkles.
What if somebody offered you $2 million a year but for the rest of your life you could only wear clothes you bought from Marshall's?
31: Kickstarter! Don't we all want too see neb actualize his sartorial splendor?
My family was super frugal, and has always lived below their means in ways MC people don't normally do. IHAMHB, Growing up our clothes mostly came from Goodwill or hand-me-downs, and my dad got our first color TV out of a dumpster. He would also get a lot of our groceries from a dumpster behind a supermarket near his work. We almost never had new or name brand items, so I just got used to not having what other kids had.*
The one way I spend money I don't need is by buying in bulk, and with food that means stuff goes bad before I can eat it. It would be cheaper and less wasteful to buy smaller quantities, but I have a hard time with that. I am trying to be more realistic about what I will use or not use, food-wise, so I don't end up throwing out rotten vegetables. I also physically can't throw out food that's still edible, so I'll have arguments with my boyfriend about saving food neither of us wants to eat, because he rightly points out that I stick it in the fridge until it goes bad and then throw it out, and it would be far more straightforward just to throw it out.
*Graduating from HS, my mother (rightly enough) refused to buy me a robe when she'd bought one for my brother 4 years earlier. They'd changed the robes over that period of time, so it meant I was the only one wearing a purply-red shiny robe instead of a tomato-red matte robe.
He would also get a lot of our groceries from a dumpster behind a supermarket near his work.
Too far over the line!
I enjoy saving money by sleeping on a lice-infested mattress under the freeway. It's just how I was raised, unlike my free-spending upper middle class "friends."
Ask yourself: Do you NEED more than one pair of underwear, or do you WANT more than one pair of underwear?
37: I read in Slate (or was it the Atlantic) that after a while your body becomes accustomed to the lice and it doesn't itch at all. Is that true?
38: Pro-tip -- brown underwear doesn't show stains!
I remember now that I asked Buttercup if she was a freegan. I guess the answer is almost, but not quite.
Yes, I've found it financially convenient never to switch from "you're obligated not to be vain and so should never spend time or money on your appearance" to "you're obligated to make yourself look nice or you will offend people." Both in caricature, obviously, but there was a pretty significant norm shift in my small pocket of the world between identity-formation-time and now. I'm happily ignoring it.
I bought some makeup once and was shocked by how much it cost, and I never wear it (except foundation very occasionally). I may flip out after turning 40 and reverse 180 degrees, straight into forty more years of age denial. I hate aging much more than I ever thought I would.
I'm worried that there's something wrong with the sale shirt here. Could you all reassure me that it's OK even if it costs so much less than the others?
42 seems unbearably smug and vile. You guys know by now it's all a thin veneer over a bottomless pit of self-loathing, right? Right? I don't quite feel like describing the bottomless pit today, or even speculating about its effect on my finances.
44: Not unbearably smug or vile at all.
Anyway, we all hate ourselves here!
Inadvertent frugality: last year was tight all year, and in fact we fell behind on some bills. We weren't really sure why until I finally did our taxes and discovered that AB's income had dropped by over 40%. Mine had dipped a bit (mostly due to one deadbeat client who finally paid me last week), but hers just cratered, and it had been, the previous year, about 45% of our total income.
She's now on pace to earn something like her entire 2015 income by July, with more work on the horizon, so that's nice, but it was a heckuva hit.
Probably the easiest single thing we could do would be to skip alcohol at review dinners, where we spend something like $40/week. It would be a distinct hit in quality of life, but in terms of mental effort and feeling deprived, I can't imagine what else would match it.
45.2: How dare you presume to talk for everyone, peep! Ignorant slut!
44. Damn, lk, sounds like you are feeling bad. Unironically, be good to yourself. An empty wallet is not a curse telling you anything deeper, it's a transient problem.
43: Surely they just want to move it (or them, I see 2 on sale)? I mean, there's an implicit indication that the market of Barney's customers didn't find them as desirable as Barney's thought they would*, but I wouldn't leap from that to "they're hideous, unwearable at any price." But I don't see anything that puts them out of line with all of the other, still-expensive shirts.
On a separate note, the models are photoshopped to be really narrow, right? I mean, those aren't merely skinny dudes, they look like the JPEG was shrunk 15% in the x direction only.
*it's entirely plausible that they ordered more of them, thinking they'd seen huge, but they've in fact only sold about as many as all the rest
Probably the easiest single thing we could do would be to skip alcohol at review dinners, where we spend something like $40/week
It's not paid for?!
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But you sleep so much more soundly knowing how much you saved for retirement.
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Weirdly enough, despite being a grad student I am less scrappy than my roots. I eat free food on campus all the time, but I've never actually taken anything out of a dumpster and eaten it.
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Yeah, I feel like as a youngish attractive woman one can get away with looking respectable without makeup, but that gets harder to pull off as an older woman. The retinol cream is my first foray into the actual women's skincare market, and it's not something I would have ever thought I'd use 5 years ago.
easiest single thing we could do would be to skip alcohol at review dinners, where we spend something like $40/week
Just pregame in the parking lot with a flask. No problem.
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Yeah, it looks like they're just trying to move inventory. If you've noticed they appear to be sold out of multiple sizes in those colors. Buy away, if you want an expensive but not hideously expensive dress shirt.
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If you can't self-loath here, where can you self-loath?
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Yikes! Sorry to hear that. I hope the bills are now manageable, and glad to hear her income has recovered. That's a big dip in income.
Unironically, be good to yourself. An empty wallet is not a curse telling you anything deeper, it's a transient problem.
Yes, this is correct, though it sucks to have to be non-ironic. Direct the loathing outwards! Turn those flames of self-loathing into a flamethrower!
Loathe. It's funny how, this time around with The House at Pooh Corner, it's clear to me that Eeyore is an insufferable jerk who deserves to have rocks thrown at him. I used to pity him, but he's so relentlessly nasty. Fuck off, Eeyore.
Good. First, flamethrow Eeyore. Then, the world.
A friend in grad school used to call me Eeyore.
But you sleep so much more soundly knowing how much you saved for retirement.
I don't know that this is true. I think if you're a worrier, you're going to worry. I find some encouragement in knowing there are little baskets of safety here and there, but maybe that's because I don't have much room to lecture others on self-loathing.
53.1 My link was ironic humor, characteristically succesful. Here, this is sincere:
https://www.vlisco.com/en/vlisco/types/super-wax/vl066418.06/
I am procrastinating, have unfinished work but need to get my ex's cat from the vet.
The end of this thread feels good. Like Unfogged of old.
Hold on what's wrong with food from dumpsters?
I mean, yes leftovers and stuff is probably well into the realm of the desperate. But there's an awful lot of perfectly usable food that ends up in dumpsters from people moving, supermarkets throwing stuff out, etc. I've found plenty of canned or otherwise sealed up food, pantry items, bulk spices, and so on in dumpsters and there's nothing unsafe about that.
But you sleep so much more soundly knowing how much you saved for retirement.
It's odd, because I'm much older than you (Buttercup), but I can't worry about something that far away. I worry about losing my job in the next couple of hours because I can't stop commenting but that's as far ahead as I can worry, and it still doesn't make me behave.
60: Mywife has called me Eeyore, from time to time.
Given 59, peep, do you call her Rabbit?
It's not paid for?!
Nope. Partly on the premise that alcohol isn't really in our purview ("The Yeungling was cold and crisp..."), but mostly due to cheapness. I mean, they don't mind reimbursing the kids' sodas and juices.
57 is an unusually good candidate for mouseover text.
67: No! What are you insinuating, Thorn?
I can't reveal what I call my wife.
Yuengling isn't really crisp, is it? It's malty to me. I'd try more different beers, but some people decided to use way too many hops.
(Research note: In Delaware, if you ask for a "lager", they ask you what kind.)
Speaking of loathing things that deserve to be loathed, this insanely great New Yorker parody feels like it needs to be mentioned here.
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There is truth to that. I have to remind myself I don't want to become a miser who dies alone on her piles of money. Or more realistically, like my grandfather's best friend, who AIHMHB, used packing crates as furniture and wore old patched pants he tied with a rope and ate canned food out of the can, and after he died, a million dollars in cash was found in the floorboards.
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Haha well, maybe you were just really really bourgie.
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I started worrying about saving for retirement in my early 20s. It's a weird combo, crazy neurotic worrying + desire to live out of a car and bum around the world. It just means I'm a hoarder who moves every year or so.
Back to the OP, I'm skeptical. A single pair of Russell Westbrook's Dior Homme pants would cost as much as like ten or twenty pairs at Express.* And anyway, what would the average NBA player buy at Express? The average NBA player is 6'7", according to Wikipedia, and on the Express website, most pants have a maximum inseam of 34 inches. Nor do I believe they're buying tons of clothes for their wives and girflriends -- Ayesha Curry for sure does not shop at Express, even if her husband does wear shitty shoes.
*I didn't even know that Express made men's clothes, until reading this post. I had thought that Express' men's store was Structure, where you went in 1995 to stock up on Fresh Prince style jewel-toned silk shirts.
a hoarder who moves every year or so.
The actual worst life! Seriously: hope it's not so bad? "Hoard Light: A Nomad's Manifesto," by Buttercup.
this insanely great New Yorker parody feels like it needs to be mentioned here.
I wasn't convinced it was great until I got to the "Contributors" page:
Andrew Lipstein (the financial page, p 23), founded 0s & 1s Read (0s-1s.com), a digital bookstore/lit website, and works at Meural, an art tech startup.
(although, apparently the joke is on me. I thought that was brilliant parody, but 0s-1s.com is real).
Sometimes I wonder if Buttercup's true identity is that of a member of The East.
My wife calls me Eeyore because I'm hung like a donkey.
Speaking of basketball players this is an amazing piece written by a WNBA player.
Orlando is where I was born and raised. Pulse, the gay nightclub, is just ten minutes from my mom's house. Five minutes from where I graduated high school.
When we landed in New York, my mom called.
"Everything is on lockdown, Z," she said. "Police are everywhere. All the streets around here are crime scenes."
And then she asked, "Have you heard from your sister?"
I hadn't. No one had.
My younger sister is gay. She'd been at Pulse the weekend before.
Now this thread feels like old Unfogged.
62: I've been resisting wax prints for mostly stupid and complicated reasons but skeins of yarn may be irresistible.
This store has onesies with "I'm so cute, I must be X" for three values of X: Irish, Italian, and Jewish. The rest of you are out of luck.
There's a guy in the Strip who sells "X Steelers Fan" t-shirts with a breathtaking array of X: I would say easily 30, possibly 50. Basically, every European nationality (including the Balkans; maybe not the Baltics), the major Asian ones, and a few others. It's sort of like the cliche of Democratic bumper stickers: "Asian-Pacific Islanders for the Steelers".
84: I want a onesie that say, "If you ain't Irish, Italian, or Jewish, you ain't shit."
I still have my NURSES FOR GORE-LIEBERMAN and SLOVENIANS FOR GORE-LIEBERMAN buttons.
OT: Am I the only one surprised that this is the Disney World resort's first alligator incident? At first I ungenerously thought this was the parents' fault for letting a toddler in Florida wade in a freshwater lake, but then I saw a picture of the beach. It looks like every other lakefront swimming beach "up north," and with lawn chairs! To someone raised in Florida such as myself, lakes (and canals, and soggy lawn swales, and water traps, and rivers) are danger zones full of poisonous snakes and gators, but I can't blame tourists for not knowing, especially given how the resorts landscaped the area.
(And yes, I know that gators aren't generally aggressive. I still think Disney created an attractive nuisance, even if there were a few "no swimming" signs.)
Maybe not water deep enough to hide an alligator.
The retinol cream is my first foray into the actual women's skincare market..
Do they make this stuff for men? Like, maybe the same product in a tub labeled "axle grease"?
Because it turns out I spent much of my youth in the sun, and the wrinkles are emerging. I'm not happy about it, on account of my exceptional vanity.
89: I was shocked and stunned that Disney was so stupid, and I would like to know if warnings were issued and children not allowed at the movie but it doesn't matter the Nebraska parents should end up with roughly 30-50% of Disney total equity for this fuckup for psychological distress alone.
Had a picture in my head last night of the gator grabbing one of the toddler's legs and the daddy dying inside because he just won't pull hard enough. Dad did have a hold on the kid as the gator dragged the kid into the water. Do you let go? Gator won't.
You are in luck. No endorsement implied.
Our vanity is exceptional because it is about three inches lower than the bathroom sinks of anybody else I have seen. It was like that when we bought the place.
"body intact with a few puncture wounds"
Drowned*. Dad tried to pry gator's jaws apart. I'll still bet it was an arm or leg.
Warning signs all over, but inadequate. You don't get away with anodyne warning signs when you organize a fucking family beach event.
*My understanding is that gators hold on to the drowned big stuff until it decomposes. Search activity scared it away.
Don't care. Gators and Disney can just die.
Maybe not water deep enough to hide an alligator.
I believe it was Robert Fogel who, demonstrating his mastery of the economist's toolbox, came up with a counterfactual history of American economic development in which the transcontinental railroads came later, following the expansion of the interior shipping trade to include significant amounts of cargo being sent up and down the Platte.
This seems like the kind of thing people here like if they haven't already seen it; http://digg.com/video/ted-talk-parody.
99: transported by ekranoplan, clearly.
For the other end of the NBA player spectrum, here's an in-depth look at where Russell Westbrook's clothing comes from.
"No swimming signs" don't (if one is picky) also imply "Don't wade in foot-deep water." Also, "Don't go near the alligators" implies you can see the ones you aren't going near.
I'm oddly relieved that the kid wasn't eaten, even though I'm not surprised as gators cache their kills for later use.
Steamships came up to Fort Benton.
Warning signs all over, but inadequate.
Honestly, the tick-tock sound should've been enough.
The Missouri is a very different river than the Platte. Even near its mouth, the Platte really isn't going to float more than a canoe.
Anyway, I'm about to take ship for the strange land they call "New Jersey."
107: But no one's ever gotten out of there alive!
They say the people getting off the boat did.
I'm about to take ship for the strange land they call "New Jersey."
Don't swim in the water!!
I'm worried that there's something wrong with the sale shirt here. Could you all reassure me that it's OK even if it costs so much less than the others?
The more important question is what the hell is wrong with the prices of the shirts that aren't on sale?! Are those prices a joke?
I'm oddly relieved that the kid wasn't eaten
I can't imagine this being much comfort to the parents.
110: Particularly at Action Park.
I do think bob is right that the family will end up with pretty significant compensation from Disney.
Disney's PR people should be telling GC, don't fight this at all.
For the other end of the NBA player spectrum, here's an in-depth look at where Russell Westbrook's clothing comes from.
Also, note that, "He wears each outfit only one time. And then gives them away."
It seems weird to have cell service in the middle of a bay, but here we are.
AB was confused by this--"Why would Disney put an alligator in their resort lake!?"--and I had to explain that, per 89, gators are essentially endemic to freshwater in Florida. It's like asking, "Why did Disney put mosquitoes at their resort?"
118: but why didn't they put bleach in the water? That will keep alligators away.
Everything people say about New Jersey drivers is true.
Report: New Jersey Drivers Among Best In Country http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2015/12/07/report-new-jersey-driving-among-best-in-country/
That was the first hit on Google for the phrase, "New Jersey Drivers are"
119: Liberal environmentalists! The real enemy!
121 is convincing evidence that the Google algorithm is broken.
Or it explains why anybody survives.
I can't imagine this being much comfort to the parents.
Unless they had to identify the body, like parents of kids killed at Sandy Hook.
OT: Nobody will let me sit in George Washington's chair.
Unless they had to identify the body
How many two year olds did Disney expect to find in their lagoon?
I suspect that the rules for identification vary by jurisdiction, but I remember cases of my mom's in which verification by kin was performed even when there was no doubt about the identity of the victim.
Plus, it's Disney. They stopped looking when they found the one kid, but there could be more.
The crack might make it a better symbol for the fragility of liberty, but still, shitty work is shitty work.
It was the British who cast that bell.
There's a guy on CNN saying he grabbed his small child from an alligator at Disney, told them about it, and the manager laughed at him.
There's a guy smuggling Yuengling out of the free hotel happy hour. And it's not me.
How do people watch CNN without free Yuengling?
They can be done at places with no CNN.
But what about airports? You can't expect people to forsake Yuengling in airports.
I think they should kill the Airport CNN providers, they way they killed all the Hare Krishna guys, but nobody ever asks me.
CNN at airports is terrible. The worst is where they space out the TVs so its almost impossible to escape. I think they do it to deter people from living in airports, like Tom Hanks did in that movie.
There's a guy on CNN saying he grabbed his small child from an alligator at Disney, told them about it, and the manager laughed at him.
This is the Florida equivalent of "the stork brought you", right?
The manager presumably was commenting on the patron's BMI in comparison with that of an alligator.
I found a change machine that gives you $1.02 if you put in $1.00.
I'm trying to figure out if there are enough coins in the machine to scale up enough to cover the costs of depositing coins.
Did a duck boat sink and somebody drown? Asking maybe too late.
Some guy is running the steps. Because cliche.
Many banks have a coin counting machine in the lobby and if you have an account there they don't usually charge a fee for it either the way CoinStar or whatever usually does.
The last time I used one at my local branch I got to see someone with over two thousand dollars worth of coins, which was amazing.
148: Is the music playing or does he have to hum it for himself?
The music was playing on the duck boat.
Your banks charge you money to deposit money?
I mean, other than through shitty interest rates.
No, banks don't charge to deposit coins.
The CoinStar machines don't charge either if you turn your coins into a gift card. Get an Amazon gift card.
Napoleonic battleships also look small.
And I did not fall into Portsmouth harbor.
While Moby liveblogs his travels, let's all post-blog ours.
The Santa Maria looked very small even docked on the Scioto River. But now she's gone.
And she probably won't be back -- http://www.10tv.com/article/santa-maria-replica-wont-return-columbus-riverfront
Guess I missed my chance to discover America.
161: Way to celebrate genocide, oppressor.
163: There were protesters saying just that.
165 was supposed to have an "in" but this way is better.
You not going, that is. Nobody could have expected me to go.
171: No one could have expected me to go unless to protest.
172: But the protestors didn't pay the admission fee.
152: no, they just charge for converting coins to bills, if you don't have an account with them.
To assuage everyone's consciences, I point out that the Santa Maria was not a battleship, and therefore no-one was ever obliged to visit and to be disappointed, in person, by its diminutive displacement.
Honestly "getting stronger"/the theme from rocky should be played more often. If it was piped in at work I'd be twice as productive. It is humanity's core discovery of the sound for becoming more awesome. Everything is a training montage! Just like we'll never see music that signals "this is funny" better than Yakety Sax. Literally anything is funny when you add in Yakety Sax.
Which is why it's generally added to things that aren't funny to begin with.
Does Roy Rogers exist except for turnpike service plazas?
"There's a little bit of Trigger in every bite."
At one point Roy Rogers was down to about 10 locations that were not at turnpike rest stops. Now there are about 40, mostly in Maryland.
There are no PA or NY locations outside the turnpike rest stops.
humanity's core discovery of the sound for becoming more awesome.
My idea for a patent: everyone's phone has a theme song phrase selected, like a ringtone but with more bass. The phones also have threshold detectors. Every single entrance into a room, into an elevator, into a subway car, is consequently automatically heralded, though of course the copyright owner of the riff gets a micropayment.
My god. Rick Derringer would be a billionaire.
Now there are about 40, mostly in Maryland.
That's funny. The response in my head was, "of course, there are tons of Roy Rogers." But apparently I have terrapin blinders.
183: Roy Rogers was big, back when I went to high school in Bethesda Maryland. We used to call it Roy Rogé because we were cool like that.
181 is great. ALL SHALL HAVE LEITMOTIFS.
One of the neglected awesome bits of "Starship Troopers" is that, when the troops need to be withdrawn from an enemy planet, they find their way back to their landing craft by homing in on broadcasts of Forties show tunes. The narrator's landing craft plays a song by the guys who wrote "Camelot".
I'm still here trying to wrap my head around the Disney resort beaches. I truly can't believe they haven't had more serious problems before this. I wonder if the lifeguards were typically quicker to keep people from going into the water.
I used to see a ton of alligators when I was a kid, and my dad and I would go canoeing. They scared the crap out of me. It was really strange to move north for grad school and realize that yes, people really do swim in lakes.
I mean, in Jersey, they all have snakes in them. Or at least Action Park did.
In New Jersey, the state put out road signs reading "High Accident Area" and drivers assumed those signs were as imperative as the stop signs.
If I've parsed that right, the signs worked