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[Arachno-capitalist]

Well touambers, everyone here has been posting some stellar life stats lately so heres a blast fax kudos to all of you. Take the rest of the day off. Everyone except Linear.

[Mr Trout]

I've had some great experiences buying things off craigslist. I got a $2k couch for $125 because some dude got it in the divorce settlement and just wanted it out of his house. I got my mom an awesome antique typpesetter's tray to hold nick-nacks on the walll. I found my bike, which I've rode at least 1000 mile on, on craigslist. I've gotten countless tickets the day of the show, usually paid under face value, and the people were happy to get rid of them. I found my current apartment which I believe is the best deal in the entire city on craigslist. Plus hours of amusement reading the missed connections and best-of sections. I love that site.

[linear]

what's a life stat? 

[greenkoolayd]

what's a life stat? 

HBPM-heart beats per minute
BMPD-bowel movements per day
CBVCEPD-calories burned versus calories eaten per day

also, your mom

[jay-ell]

I always check CL for short-term writing gigs, since most of the major job boards aren't set up to handle 1099-type opportunities. You do have to be careful, though -- there's good stuff out there but there are also a lot of scammers and nut jobs.

[theinevitable]

not that this is surprising (or that it takes much), but toy story 3 made me cry so hard that my face started hurting.

the multi-whammy of being a sad movie, and being a sad movie about things from childhood, and toy story being a thing from my childhood... damn.

[littlefallsmets]

None of you know Kid's Movie Sadness until you witness the horrifying glory that is Will Vinton's claymation "The Adventures of Mark Twain".

None of you.

Watch THAT flick and then get back to me.

Holy God.

[jay-ell]

not that this is surprising (or that it takes much), but toy story 3 made me cry so hard that my face started hurting.

the multi-whammy of being a sad movie, and being a sad movie about things from childhood, and toy story being a thing from my childhood... damn.

I cried, too. At the end of course, but also when Andy's mom walks into his nearly-empty room and gets choked up because she realizes he's really going off to college. This is heartwrenching for the mom of a rising kindergartener who, I swear, was a squalling bundle of baby just a week or so ago. I imagine it only gets worse as they approach the teen years.

[greenkoolayd]

I cried, too. At the end of course, but also when Andy's mom walks into his nearly-empty room and gets choked up because she realizes he's really going off to college. This is heartwrenching for the mom of a rising kindergartener who, I swear, was a squalling bundle of baby just a week or so ago. I imagine it only gets worse as they approach the teen years.

my youngest brother just graduated HS last week, so my mom is  a HUGE mess.  her bad anxiety doesnt help things, either.

[miles]

Thanks for the spoiler alerts, motherfuckers.

Seriously!

Today I'm going to find out that I have low vitamin D levels. I was googling it (of course) and stumbled onto this article. Bogus headline: "Those with low vitamin D twice as likely to die"

Although the article goes on to clarify it by explaining "patients with the lowest blood levels of vitamin D were about two times more likely to die from any cause during the next eight years than those with the highest levels, the study found," the math in the headline doesn't quite work. The Onion gets it right, naturally.

[jay-ell]

Thanks for the spoiler alerts, motherfuckers.

We didn't give away anything that you don't learn in the first five minutes of the movie. Seriously, have you not seen the trailers? Andy goes to college, the whole movie is about what happens to his toys during that transition. This is not like revealing Luke Skywalker's parentage; it's more like saying the Jedi are the good guys.

[theinevitable]

the Jedi are the good guys.

can you highlight shit this in black or something from now on? COME ON

[Doc]

the Jedi are the good guys.

Man I can't believe you read that film on such a superficial level, JL. Can't you see that we're meant to identify with the Emperor as a modern day anti-villain everyman, whose is crushed and aged before his time by the need to be everything to everyone. His hooded visage a metaphor for the impossibility of every showing the world our inner selves.

[miles]

Just watched the season finale of Justified. Did anybody else watch this? It was on FX, a western based on an Elmore Leonard story. Pretty good.

[jay-ell]

Why do you feel the urge to say anything without a warning. Guess who avoids bothering to learn shit when the "I'm gonna go see it "  lever is pulled. I don't know how far you're gonna go in unless you warn me or I read at my risk.

Fine. Fuck Me. It's a free country for the moment.

Sorry, Dude. Sincerely, I am. But I have also been trying to avoid spoilers, and I figured that at the very least, if you knew the movie existed at all, you would have to know at least the very basic premise of it. It's sort of been all over the place.