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

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  1. wes tegg

    wes tegg I'm a Guy's guy, guys.
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    His Enoch Powell “Keep Britain White” rant was in the mid-seventies.
     
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  2. southlick

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    Lester Holt's final NBC Nightly News broadcast right now :tebow:
     
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  3. southlick

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  4. Clown Baby

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  5. AptosDuck

    AptosDuck Pedantic Hausfrau
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    is he being deported
     
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  6. DayDomination

    DayDomination A mack at dog bites
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    Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals
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    Strongly considering going to see em this upcoming Friday
     
  7. THEBLUERAIDER

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    Do it. Love Ben Harper.
     
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  8. a.tramp

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    Ben Harper slaps and has for 3 decades now.
     
  9. ~ taylor ~

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  10. spagett

    spagett Got ya, spooked ya
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    Know we got a lot of artheads on here

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    What are your interpretations of this fine piece of above-toilet art?

    I'm thinking it's a penguin doing the "would ya look at that" pose
     
  11. colonelrascals

    colonelrascals Mayonnaise-colored Benz, I push miracle whips
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  12. burnttatertot

    burnttatertot No Whammies!
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  13. Roy

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    It’s giving “small child found a sharpie”
     
  14. ~ taylor ~

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    Someone playing “smell this” with a raven
     
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  15. Tiffin

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    9/11 was an inside job
     
  16. football501

    football501 I once ate a Twix with the wrapper on it
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    What an absolute cannon

     
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  17. Celemo

    Celemo Ban the Corner 3
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    Jeff George's long lost daughter
     
  18. AptosDuck

    AptosDuck Pedantic Hausfrau
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    A couple of cliche/lazy storytelling tools in TV and film that bug the shit out of me (not really, but they do annoy me):

    Sitting bolt upright in bed after having a nightmare. I know of nobody in real life who says they have ever done this, and we've all had our share of nightmares. Fuck off with this. Jolt awake maybe, but dispense with the fucking sitting up like you've just been goosed by Andre the Giant

    Changing ears while using the phone. Usually done to indicate that the listener has just heard something IMPORTANT. Again, nobody I know does this. They put the phone to the opposite ear of whatever hand they use to write with. Personally, I can't process using the phone with my left ear, on the rare occasions when I use the phone anymore.

    Any time a character says "You don't understand..."

    Guys like Spielberg and Abrams have their own series of cliche shots that they fall into using, but these three above seem to be more general. Feel free to add any that bug you all.
     
  19. Name P. Redacted

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    Anytime someone starts their story with “well when I was building sets for movies…”
     
  20. Pile Driving Miss Daisy

    Pile Driving Miss Daisy It angries up the blood
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    Personally, if I hear something important on a phone call I just shove the phone up my ass.
     
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  21. colonelrascals

    colonelrascals Mayonnaise-colored Benz, I push miracle whips
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    I put mine on speaker
     
  22. Gunners

    Gunners Nicking a living
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    Best Buy really fucked me over with delivery schedule. Said they’d contact day before, did not. Called and gave me a date, no showed and same today

    Canceled order and buying same from Amazon and will figure out wall mounting or a stand later. Done with Best Buy for eternity
     
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  23. Truman

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    There are a ton of YouTube tutorials out there if you are the least bit handy.
     
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  24. Truman

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  25. Gunners

    Gunners Nicking a living
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    Semi-handy. Taking out the broken TV was a wild experience as TV started collapsing after I unscrewed like half of the first screw on the bracket.

    Figure letting an expert do it for like $200 is more than worth it for a very nice TV I hope to have for a decade or so
     
  26. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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    hah
     
  27. Roy

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    Im very butt handy
     
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  28. Redav

    Redav mostly cows and rocks
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    I get nervous and hang up if I hear something important
     
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  29. Fat Drunk & Stupid

    Fat Drunk & Stupid Barning Hard
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  30. Name P. Redacted

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    Makes sense cuz your head is always up there lol
     
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  31. bigred77

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    Put bracket on wall then put tv on bracket

    When taking down, you take tv off bracket leaving the bracket on the wall
     
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  32. Goose

    Goose Hi
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    I’m looking to mount a TV on my back porch sometime before football season. Will be paying my dad $0 to do it.
     
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  33. Name P. Redacted

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    I have a tv mount on my back patio from the previous owners and have zero plans to put a tv there. Those fuckers had TVs everywhere
     
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  34. It'sAlwaysSunnyInAthens

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    This is the way. Have changed out a bunch of tvs and it's not a big deal after the first time.
     
  35. ~ taylor ~

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    When we were house hunting, we walked through a house that had wall mounted TVs in every room, including the bathrooms. It was offensive.
     
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  36. Gunners

    Gunners Nicking a living
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    this was first approach, screws were not remotely budging

    even when off, didn’t move at all. Now I get to haul big TV and frame to the dump, yay.
     
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  37. Lip

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    idk man

    deb in HR said the complaints are bc you’re very butt handsy
     
  38. Name P. Redacted

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    Yup they had a tv over the master bath with coax ran to it lol.
     
  39. Sub-Zero

    Sub-Zero ALL THE TOSTITOS!!!
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  40. MLS

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    Gonna be a lot of awkward conversations when kids start asking for Hitachi wands
     
  41. ~ taylor ~

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    The house we bought has a coax hook up in the master bath and I just covered it with a plate.
     
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  42. southlick

    southlick "Better Than You"
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  43. Goose

    Goose Hi
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    Why does PNC need to take their entire online banking system down for an entire weekend to upgrade?
     
  44. Simon Templar

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    BMO4Lyfe
     
  45. Hoss Bonaventure

    Hoss Bonaventure Eye of the tiger, dick of a horse.
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    So gonna throw this in here but what is the consensus on buying a very nice purse for their wife as a surprise? I don’t know purses (unfortunately) and I was looking to get a nice one for the wife but I feel that’s something I should ask her about and not surprise her because what if she hates it.
     
  46. Goose

    Goose Hi
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    Find out how much her current favorite purse costs and buy one that looks similar but costs slightly more money
     
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  47. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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    Would need to learn what she likes
     
  48. Simon Templar

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    Just buy her a Birkin and she’ll be happy.
     
  49. Hoss Bonaventure

    Hoss Bonaventure Eye of the tiger, dick of a horse.
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    Loves her big tote purse. I was looking to get her a nice LV one. I just don’t know whether to ask her which one she wants or just buy it and let her return it if she doesn’t like it
     
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  50. Lyrtch

    Lyrtch My second favorite meat is hamburger
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    I'd go former unless she has specifically talked about liking lv
     
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