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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 22, 2020 10:18:00 GMT -5
Ot appears that my frugal cooling methods this year are paying off. My bill last month was nearly half what they were last year around this time. What is your method? Any tips are appreciated.
I've been keeping the thermostat at 77 degrees while at home, and then leaving it at 81 degrees while I'm gone this year.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 23, 2020 0:21:16 GMT -5
If I order a men's size XL apparel from the UK, will it be about the same size as in the USA? I'm getting confusing answers online.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 23, 2020 13:42:15 GMT -5
If I order a men's size XL apparel from the UK, will it be about the same size as in the USA? I'm getting confusing answers online. Apparently, men's European sizing tends to be about a size smaller than here in the States.
Now what I can't grasp is whether UK sizes are the same as Euro or their own separate measures. The supplier specifically states they are a UK distributor. I may go two sizes up, just to make damn sure.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 24, 2020 14:22:05 GMT -5
I probably talk to the cat more than anyone else I know. Is that normal?
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Jul 24, 2020 17:52:52 GMT -5
I probably talk to the cat more than anyone else I know. Is that normal? Not if you're me.
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Post by Portrait in Flesh on Jul 25, 2020 17:49:46 GMT -5
If I order a men's size XL apparel from the UK, will it be about the same size as in the USA? I'm getting confusing answers online. Apparently, men's European sizing tends to be about a size smaller than here in the States.
Now what I can't grasp is whether UK sizes are the same as Euro or their own separate measures. The supplier specifically states they are a UK distributor. I may go two sizes up, just to make damn sure. Back when I lived across the pond, UK sizes were different from Euro sizes. Now with all that Brexit crap going on, I'd probably guess the sizing is very different. Any way you can find out what the metric sizing is on it?
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 25, 2020 22:50:14 GMT -5
Apparently, men's European sizing tends to be about a size smaller than here in the States.
Now what I can't grasp is whether UK sizes are the same as Euro or their own separate measures. The supplier specifically states they are a UK distributor. I may go two sizes up, just to make damn sure. Back when I lived across the pond, UK sizes were different from Euro sizes. Now with all that Brexit crap going on, I'd probably guess the sizing is very different. Any way you can find out what the metric sizing is on it? Nah, I went ahead and ordered as a XXXL. God knows what will show up.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jul 31, 2020 16:26:57 GMT -5
Is this the greatest dis track in history?
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Post by Mayzshon on Jul 31, 2020 16:35:13 GMT -5
Is this the greatest dis track in history?
I recently learned that the original lyrics were "Bless you Ben" and was intended for the soundtrack of the movie Ben.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Aug 2, 2020 9:37:23 GMT -5
Is this the greatest dis track in history?
I recently learned that the original lyrics were "Bless you Ben" and was intended for the soundtrack of the movie Ben. Well, thank Christ they went with the Jackson Five track instead. If I'm gonna hear a love song addressed to a rat, it needs to be a Jackson Five composition. But the history on the Carly Simon song is intriguing. I wonder how the rest of the lyrics went?
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Aug 2, 2020 10:48:32 GMT -5
A recent Choco thread on twitter got me thinking: Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies Has there ever been a movie with a really long title that's been any good? (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb doesn't count because everyone just calls it Dr. Strangelove. Also I've never seen it)
A couple of years late on this answer: The only one I could think of is this. There are lots of good documentaries with overlong titles, but I didn't include those.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Aug 2, 2020 13:20:54 GMT -5
A recent Choco thread on twitter got me thinking: Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies Has there ever been a movie with a really long title that's been any good? (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb doesn't count because everyone just calls it Dr. Strangelove. Also I've never seen it)
A couple of years late on this answer: The only one I could think of is this. There are lots of good documentaries with overlong titles, but I didn't include those. That movie sounds great, Kobbers, and I clearly need to see the Cash Flagg opus again.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Aug 2, 2020 13:25:19 GMT -5
A recent Choco thread on twitter got me thinking: Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies Has there ever been a movie with a really long title that's been any good? (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb doesn't count because everyone just calls it Dr. Strangelove. Also I've never seen it)
A couple of years late on this answer: The only one I could think of is this. There are lots of good documentaries with overlong titles, but I didn't include those. I went to Google to look into this burnjng question and immediately found a Ben Affleck picture called I KILLED MY LESBIAN WIFE, HUNG HER ON A MEATHOOK, AND NOW I HAVE A THREE-PICTURE DEAL AT DISNEY. How can that not be a great viewing experience?
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Post by Deeky on Aug 2, 2020 13:47:30 GMT -5
Well, it stars Ben Affleck for one thing.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Aug 2, 2020 14:22:56 GMT -5
Well, it stars Ben Affleck for one thing. Actually, he doesn't appear in it at all that I can see. He's the director.
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Post by Deeky on Aug 2, 2020 14:27:49 GMT -5
That's actually worse.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Aug 2, 2020 16:05:58 GMT -5
Last October I had the company I got my HVAC unit calling me up on the phone and asking me to schedule an appointment for my twice yearly insepection. (after I paid a $199 fee for two yearly inspections, Fall and Spring). Well, they scheduled me for some time in November. And, since they called me, instead of my calling them, I kept waiting for their phone call, which, six months after november, would have been in May. Well May went by, and no phone call to schedule the Spring inspection. Then June, and Summer came, and week, after week, went by and no phone call. Finally, in early July, I called them, EIGHT MONTHS when they should have called me two months earlier. They told me they hadn't called me because of the Virus, but they would be calling me, so just wait for them to call. That was last week. No phone call about scheduling the Spring inspection, when it's getting close to half the summer gone. And, I paid that fee for Two Inspectionss. I don't see why one inspector with both of us, wearing masks and standing six feet away from each other, could possibly put me or the inspector at risk for the virus. This thread has gotten way off topic, at least from what it is when I made the post above, and here it is the first week in August and the company I got my HVAC unit from still has not called me on the telephone about the twice yearly check of the unit, which should have been done, now THREE MONTHS ago! And, I have paid, ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY NINE DOLLARS for two inspections, and have only gotten the first of those twice yearly inspections, THREE MONTHS late. Supposedly because of the virus. The inspector does not spend all that much time inside of my condo, but on the outdoor part of the heating/cooling system. Why couldn't the inspector, and myself, both wear our face masks, and stand six feet away from each other, and have gotten this all over in May of this year, when it was supposed to have done ??? !!! Of course, I should be complaining to the appliance company, and not to my fellow ZAQB members, although I think it's time I called them, one the phone, or went by their store (which they did not close because of the Virus), and I probably will do so, but sharing my frustration with this situation with other people is probably a good thing for me to do since other members are also having, and reporting on, their difficulties with their cooling systems during this long hot summer. (Yea, let's all start singing the theme song of that 1958 film version of the William Faulkner novel).
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Aug 2, 2020 23:30:27 GMT -5
A couple of years late on this answer: The only one I could think of is this. There are lots of good documentaries with overlong titles, but I didn't include those. That movie sounds great, Kobbers, and I clearly need to see the Cash Flagg opus again.
It's a wonderful little flick, and I'm not usually much of a time-travel fan. I'll make a point of getting a print of it out to you sometime. Actually, that give me another excuse to pass along a copy of some Harper's Magazine pages I've had here to send for too long.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Aug 3, 2020 0:41:26 GMT -5
A recent Choco thread on twitter got me thinking: Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies Has there ever been a movie with a really long title that's been any good? (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb doesn't count because everyone just calls it Dr. Strangelove. Also I've never seen it)
A couple of years late on this answer: The only one I could think of is this. There are lots of good documentaries with overlong titles, but I didn't include those.
I just ran across this title that gets high marks on the IMDb: "Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Had Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?" (1968) However, it's an Italian film, and I don't know if it's ever been dubbed or subbed.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Aug 6, 2020 22:59:20 GMT -5
Does anyone drink Mello Yello anymore? I never see ads for them or anything, but I saw a six-pack of it on the shelf the other night, so it definitely still exists.
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