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scotchandcigar

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David Blaine's attempt to fire rifle and catch bullet in mouth goes horribly wrong | Daily Mail Online

david blaine is a magician so who knows how much of this was fake but i got a kick out of the headline.

nothing went "horribly wrong". when you fire a gun at your face bad things are supposed to happen.
The guy strikes me as a major scam artist. Everything he does is suspect. He confines himself in a tank for a week, but I think it's all TV editing. And the celebrity stuff is propaganda.
 
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JHDK

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tree man has been trimmed!

really though his one hand looks amazing. usually in these crazy cases they manage to make it a little better but it still winds up looking freakish, just a bit less freakish. in this case his hand looks almost normal.

'Tree man' of Bangladesh is CURED of condition that turned his hands into branch-like warts after 16 operations, doctors hope | Daily Mail Online

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JHDK

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got my comcast bill yesterday. they bumped my internet price up 9%. that's a crazy high increase so i called to bitch and it worked and now my new bill will be even cheaper than it was before the 9% hike. by far the best interaction i've ever had with comcast customer service.
 

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got my comcast bill yesterday. they bumped my internet price up 9%. that's a crazy high increase so i called to bitch and it worked and now my new bill will be even cheaper than it was before the 9% hike. by far the best interaction i've ever had with comcast customer service.
I've done the same several times. Makes me feel good until I realize if they are willing to drop the price so effortlessly, why are they forcing me to call them every 6 months to make that happen?
 
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scotchandcigar

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About a month ago I enabled my "timeline" on google maps (on my phone), as my wife has been doing it for a long time, and it's sometimes useful. It shows everywhere your phone's been. Now I go into the timeline, and I can look at any day back to August 2013. So all that data has been sitting in the cloud somewhere. Kinda creepy.
 

scotchandcigar

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I avoid looking at my Google Maps timeline. It shows how much my existence resembles this:

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I avoid looking at the 5 to 6 days per week that are like that. Weekends and vacations are interesting. So are weddings, concerts, and bike trails. And when we were getting ready to move, you can see how I hit every dump site in the area.
 

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Racist but accurate. I was discussing a restaurant with an Indian friend and she kept dancing around the issue. She wasn't sure someone would be able to eat there because they were ... uh ... um ... not accustomed to that particular cuisine. I told her she has permission to just say it's too hot for them because they are white.

Being offended by stereotypes is pathetic for those in power.
 

scotchandcigar

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Back when we still had fun at work, we'd all go out to lunch on Fridays, and there was a downtown area with two competing Thai restaurants. One had a buffet in which they labeled each item. The mildest label was "very hot", followed by "blazing hot", "nuclear", and "scorched earth".
 

blyons200

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Racist but accurate. I was discussing a restaurant with an Indian friend and she kept dancing around the issue. She wasn't sure someone would be able to eat there because they were ... uh ... um ... not accustomed to that particular cuisine. I told her she has permission to just say it's too hot for them because they are white.

Being offended by stereotypes is pathetic for those in power.
I find that offensive. I have a extremely hard time finding something so hot I can't handle it.