Random Thoughts That Don’t Warrant Their Own Thread: 2025

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  1. Lyrtch

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  2. Goose

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    How many holidays does the UK have that the average office worker gets off?
     
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  3. Kevintensity

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    Didn't somebody here invite their wife's coworker on their honeymoon? Ridiculed back then, maybe they were ahead of the curve??!
     
  4. Jimmy the Saint

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    Pigeon Forge?
     
  5. Kevintensity

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    Great guess, but I think it was somewhere in Europe, he was going to be their "guide" iirc
     
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  6. Tiffin

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    I was thinking SE Asia. Wasn't it a Pittsburgh fan/poster?
     
  7. WhiskeyDelta

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    Eight most years. More if something important happens with soccer or a billionaire with major blood dies at the tragically young age of 10000
     
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  8. Cabs

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    Fuck this is going to drive me crazy. I remember this too but can’t remember who.
     
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  9. BayouMafia

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    user Boone went on his honeymoon in Vietnam and brought along his new wife’s older coworker Kip
     
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  10. MLS

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    I've somehow been stuck with buying a bunch of scratch offs - is there any strategy here in terms of purchase or which varietal?
     
  11. Lyrtch

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    since the gaming board is dead posting here. finished enter the Gungeon finally and fully.

    anyone play Ravens watch? seems intriguing, might hold me over until hades 2
     
  12. arsenal

    arsenal Well, ain’t this place a geographical oddity.
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    JPripper?
     
  13. bigred77

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    Just buy one of each number on the board
     
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  14. IV

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    hades 2 open access is pretty far along
     
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  15. Lyrtch

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    No PC
     
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  16. IV

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    I ain’t hatin, it works on my laptop though, it’s gonna be great so you’re right to be excited
     
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  17. The Banks

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    We got any bug experts? Owsley ?

    what’s this thing?

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  18. The Blackfish

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    RIP
     
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  19. Owsley

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  20. Name P. Redacted

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    Play clair obscur expedition 33.
     
  21. Lyrtch

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    Have seen universal praise for it
     
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  22. Name P. Redacted

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    It’s extremely good. It has earned the praise.
     
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  23. The Banks

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    Insects are wild

    “They are one of the most diverse groups within the Hymenoptera with roughly 25,000 species described as of 2016. However, this likely represents less than a quarter of their true richness as reliable estimates are lacking, along with much of the most basic knowledge about their ecology, distribution, and evolution. It is estimated that there are more species in this family than there are species of birds and mammals combined.”
     
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  24. LSUTigers1986

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    They post the odds and the number of outstanding winning tickets per prize for every scratch off. Rough rule - higher denominations are typically better odds. But it’s a losing system because each scratch-off game only pays out like 50-70% of the total revenue.

    In California, the $30 200x and Royal Riches games are your best bets odds-wise and still have a majority of the top prizes outstanding. I’ll take a small 5% consulting fee when we hit the $10 million prize.

    https://www.calottery.com/en/scratchers

    edit: I’ll add that myself and a group of coworkers tried to defy these odds and lost our money faster than the given odds
     
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  25. spagett

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  26. GamecockInCbus

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    And there are even more species of beetles than that. I remember reading somewhere (so it may be outdated by now) that around one in five identified species of animal is a beetle.
     
  27. Redav

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    Are they native to this exact location?
     
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  28. ~ taylor ~

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    No, he was born somewhere else.
     
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  29. letan

    letan Just looking for the gator board
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    https://www.dr-lotto.com/

    Dr Lotto will tell you which scratch offs provide the most value. Looks like Lucky 7s Multiplier has the best value in Cali right now. $4mm profit if you can manage to buy every single ticket left.
     
  30. wes tegg

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    Boone went to Cambodia with his wife’s coworker, Kip. Shadow went to Pigeon Forge and was super smug and condescending about it.
     
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  31. Tobias

    Tobias we’re on to tcu
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    iirc boone was just your garden variety idiot and shadow was a legit white supremacist
     
  32. ~ taylor ~

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    Didn’t Boone end up being problematic on that front as well?
     
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  33. Tobias

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    not sure. assuming so but it was likely more to do with him being a really dumb person unlike shadow who was just a legit bigot
     
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  34. Earn_Marks

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    Drake just out here eating Ls like it’s his job
     
  35. Cabs

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    Shadow changed his fan of to say NRA after sandy hook iirc. Just a waste of oxygen
     
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  36. wes tegg

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    Shadow doubled down by trying to flex on everyone by talking about making a down payment on a $250k house in bumfuck New Jersey “where property values are high.” None of it really warranted ridicule on its own, but the unwarranted condescension did it.
     
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  37. Josey Wales

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    Are we sure he isn’t/wasn’t a Republican congressman? Same energy.
     
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  38. Goose

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    Boone was so dumb that I had to ignore him. I couldn’t stand how dumb he was.
     
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  39. Pile Driving Miss Daisy

    Pile Driving Miss Daisy It angries up the blood
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  40. wes tegg

    wes tegg I'm a Guy's guy, guys.
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    My college friend group is spread out across the country. Of my handful of closest friends, only a couple live where I do. We’ve spent the week with one of my best friends and his wife (who is also a very close friend since college), and as cheesy as it sounds, time with friends is good for the soul.
     
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  41. miles

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    Was on YouTube and an ad for Immodium popped up. Apparently their new slogan is "Immodium, calm the chaos of diarrhea" and I immediately burst out laughing.
     
  42. Savage Rob Chubb

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    The Savannah Bananas are the whitest thing to happen since?
     
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  43. seanofthedead86

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    The invention of Base Ball
     
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  44. bwi2

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    Bringing out the corpse of the all American rejects at Fenway is not helping them beat the allegations
     
  45. 2

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    I am an unimaginative shit poster so I get that people want to get online tough with me, but I feel as though as this site grows older the horses are getting higher and the posters are getting angrier. So I come here to post a thought I had that I didn’t want to get admonished for in the hotel vs Airbnb topic.

    The idea of group travel beyond your household, I don’t care if it’s best friends or family, is my personal hell. I, in part, travel to get away from those people.
     
  46. Clown Baby

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    That’s the hottest fucking take I have ever seen
     
  47. 2

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    I know but it’s not about hotels or Airbnb or virtue vs convenience.
     
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  48. Biff Bridges

    Biff Bridges The words. You are good with the words man
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    Went to France last year with our best friend couple with similar incomes and interests and it was awesome. She's a Type A and planned everything and we were cool to go along for the ride. Shortly thereafter we went on a golf trip with 3 other couples and it sucked. Half the people thought chicken strips is acceptable for each meal and bitched about the cost of everything. Never again.
     
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  49. a.tramp

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    Given your love for crappy jam bands I find this highly unlikely!
     
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  50. wes tegg

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    It has to be the right folks, but it’s awesome when it is.