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Jay said:
That is why I broke down, got Pandora One and made my own radio station. It is a weird mix of downtempo, exotica, lounge, Bossa Nova, ambient and songs from 1960's Italian movies.
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This is why I love the TuneIn app on my iPhone. Listen to radio stations from all over the world. I've quite taken to listening to Blues stations in Louisiana.

And New Orleans police radio but that's another matter. XD
 
My next door neighbor annoyingly has to pull apart the blinds and peer through the windows everytime we come home at night and park behind he beloved Prius. Even once we're parked and the lights are off she continues to stare until we've got out the car and waked up to our house.

So tonight after parking I pulled out a old, 12V, police searchlight and pointed it directly at her before turning it on. Her hands covered her face so fast I thought she was going to fall over. By the time the light was put away, she was nowhere to be seen.
 
Shawnw said:
My next door neighbor annoyingly has to pull apart the blinds and peer through the windows everytime we come home at night and park behind he beloved Prius. Even once we're parked and the lights are off she continues to stare until we've got out the car and waked up to our house.

So tonight after parking I pulled out a old, 12V, police searchlight and pointed it directly at her before turning it on. Her hands covered her face so fast I thought she was going to fall over. By the time the light was put away, she was nowhere to be seen.
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Win! I hate nosy ass neighbors. Sadly my hometown is full of them who can't learn to mind their own fucking business. -_-
 
Prius owner, there's your problem.

Maybe some one will steal it one day :D
 
Lesson in atrophy: in 2005/06 I was doing 110 lbs on the bicep curl. I'm struggling with 50 now. I'm sure if I started at that weight at the start I'd be okay. But yeah. Damn. Need to hit this shit more.
 
me too. after solid progress all summer long, i spent 3 months away overseas and didn't work out aside form weekly hikes and occasiona runs. lax is starting in two weeks though.
 
katwalk said:
Well mom has this electric snowblower and I think the electric engine out of a prius would make it way more useful. :D
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Well I dunno, I think a V8 umm (and I'm gonna have to jump on Wikipedia to research a suitable V8 engine...ahh, here we go) GM LS7 V8 would work even better ;)
 
Gas snowblowers need you to press something turn something tap something 3x and do a dance to get them to turn on though. Pain in the ass to do when ice is raining on your head and you are wearing gloves that give you less dexterity then you would have trying to turn it on with your toes.
 
Kiki was getting fed up with Angry Birds and started saying mean things to my phone. Somehow she activated Google's voice search. It listened patiently to her and submitted the file for analysis. First result, "What is your problem?"

I laughed for a solid minute.



Also,
I just smashed my foot, plunging my broken toenail into my toe. It hurts.
 
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I need to pop in here more often again. LurkerPatrol's av is made of WIN! (Well, as usual. But SpongeBob FTW!)
 
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Cowboy said:
What this place needs is a proper classic rock station branching out in some metal and the non terrible contemporary stuff.....
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Here's a FinalGear top tip for everyone out there liking Classic Rock and/or women: Give Radio Affair a listen (stream only, sadly) - Mondays 8 to 10 PM with a re-run Wednesdays at 2 to 4 AM (all times GMT). You can have a look at the playlists of past episodes online. The show is the brainchild of DJane/music lover Anja Caspary, who guides you through rock and roll history with a phone sex voice. I know it's in german, but the sound of her voice alone is worth a listen, even if you don't understand a word.

As the station offers an mp3 stream, someone with a bit dedication and minimal Unix knowledge should be able to write a script that automatically produces downloadable/tradeable mp3s.
 
Remember the 33 miners that were trapped for 69 days?

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/75022,people,news,the-33-had-pornography-and-marijuana-says-miner

The 33 had pornography and marijuana, says miner


One of the 33 Chileans caught up in the San Jose mining accident last year has revealed his fellow miners had access to marijuana ? but nobody offered him a toke during his 69 days trapped 700 metres underground fearing for his life.

"When you saw five of them headed up to the bathroom, you knew what they were doing," says Samuel Avalos. "We knew they smoked marijuana [but] they never even offered me a toke.

"They were peeling away from the group in small cliques, wandering towards the bathroom. We looked everywhere for a colilla [stub of a joint]."

The drugs appeared in the mine after Chilean authorities relaxed their previously strict control of the letters sent down below by relatives of the 33 men in the final few weeks leading up to the rescue.

The families took advantage of this to send cigarettes, medicine and illicit drugs to their loved ones. Once the miners were busted, however, the Chilean government were so worried they even discussed using a sniffer dog at the minehead.

Avalos (above) makes the revelation in a new book by New York Times reporter, Jonathan Franklin, which also reveals the men were given pornography after an offer to donate 10 sex dolls was deemed inadequate.

Incredibly, the miners had worked out a system with a separate room for 'conjugal visits' to the plastic women they hoped to receive, using condoms for hygiene. But the authorities couldn't stomach this, concerned that having to share the dolls would lead to jealousies.


The doctor who assessed the men's health needs from the surface during their ordeal, Dr Jean Romagnoli, explains: "There was a guy who offered inflatable dolls for the guys but he only had 10.

"I said 33 or none. Otherwise they would be fighting for inflatable dolls: whose turn is it? Who was seen with whose fianc?e? You are flirting with my inflatable doll."

Instead, the men ? including the spliff-starved Avalos ? received a supply of pornography to satisfy their needs.

But perhaps the most startling revelation in Franklin's book is the news that the supposedly live feed of the rescue, watched by a billion people around the world, actually contained two pre-recorded sequences, used to cover up embarrassing incidents.

When a landslip inside the mine cut the cable bringing pictures to the surface, earlier footage from the bottom of the rescue shaft was spliced in until it could be repaired. In a separate incident, a fierce argument between the rescuers was also covered up with old footage.
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whatever happened to "What happens in the mine stays in the mine"?
 
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