Miscellaneous Discussion Thread
Quote: MaxPenI'm not sure how to value a trailer jack stand. I don't want to exceed his $tolerance threshold. He didn't take me up on the $3 value so it's all a moot point anyway.
Mute* point
LV crashed once, it will crash again but its like Double Zero... it can be a while or it can be the very next spin.
Are there still problems with Home Owner Association tyranny and lawsuits out there?
Quote: RSMute* point
Nope.
Moot point is correct.
And is on my list* of the ten most abused words on this forum.
Mute = without sound.
Moot= legal term meaning made irrelevant by context or other facts since come to light.
* = mental.
FWIW, another one is saying rouge when someone means rogue. Rouge is reddish cheek powder, rogue is the small pool. (joke)
Quote: billryanUsual amount?
One dollar(US) says the average non construction single family house price drops between now and August 2019 in the Metro area.
In other words, used housing.
Sure, I will take that bet. I will even prepay you the next time I see you in case of my demise prior to that.
Quote: RSMute* point
I am not a lawyer but I have stayed in a Holiday Inn Express.
Quote: DRichSure, I will take that bet. I will even prepay you the next time I see you in case of my demise prior to that.
In that case, I'd be willing to up the bet a bit.
Quote: beachbumbabsNope.
Moot point is correct.
And is on my list* of the ten most abused words on this forum.
Mute = without sound.
Moot= legal term meaning made irrelevant by context or other facts since come to light.
* = mental.
FWIW, another one is saying rouge when someone means rogue. Rouge is reddish cheek powder, rogue is the small pool. (joke)
I love these. I had a coworker who had grown up in the south and ended up in a colder weather region say "It's so cold here. I'm going to have to get me a pair of them ear muffins".
Another was complaining about hospital costs and stated that it was "because they had a monopoly on everything".
You can find lots of them if you search for "misused phrases". Here's what the Independent said is the top 30.
Quote:To be pacific (instead of to be specific)
An escape goat (instead of a scapegoat)
Damp squid (instead of damp squib)
Nipped it in the butt (instead of nipped in the bud)
On tender hooks (instead of on tenterhooks)
Cold slaw (instead of coleslaw)
A doggie-dog world (instead of dog-eat-dog world)
Circus-sized (instead of circumcised)
Lack toast and tolerant (instead of lactose intolerant)
Got off scotch free (instead of got off scot-free)
To all intensive purposes (instead of to all intents and purposes)
Boo to a ghost (instead of boo to a goose)
Card shark (instead of card sharp)
Butt naked (instead of buck naked)
Hunger pains (instead of hunger pangs)
Tongue and cheek (instead of tongue-in-cheek)
It’s a mute point (instead of moot point)
Pass mustard (instead of pass muster)
Just deserves (instead of just deserts)
Foe par (instead of faux pas)
Social leopard (instead of social leper)
Biting my time (instead of biding my time)
Curled up in the feeble position (instead of curled up in the foetal position)
Curve your enthusiasm (instead of curb your enthusiasm)
Heimlich remover (instead of Heimlich manoeuvre)
Ex-patriot (instead of expatriate)
Extract revenge (instead of exact revenge)
Self -depreciating (instead of self-deprecating)
As dust fell (instead of as dusk fell)
Last stitch effort (instead of last ditch effort)
I make a dollar on that one every now and then.
We probably have the game show to blame for this one!Quote: HullabalooCard shark (instead of card sharp)
One of my favorites:
"I suppose you could diffuse a bomb, but you would be much better off defusing it!"
ETA...
I see that a lot here. I always thought that was more of an autocorrect problem.Quote: onenickelmiracleSo many people write defiantly instead of definitely.
Quote: beachbumbabsNope.
Moot point is correct.
And is on my list* of the ten most abused words on this forum.
Mute = without sound.
Moot= legal term meaning made irrelevant by context or other facts since come to light.
* = mental.
FWIW, another one is saying rouge when someone means rogue. Rouge is reddish cheek powder, rogue is the small pool. (joke)
In that context (to whom MaxPen was writing), it is "mute point". Fact.
Yes a moot court is one without any power in the case at all.Quote: beachbumbabsMoot point is correct.
Just be careful about 'mute'. Defendant stands mute in a transcript means the defendant is participating in the trial so if your attorney has not arrived don't say Defendant Stands Mute state specifically defendant refuses to participate in the proceedings.
>>>> another one is saying rouge when someone means rogue.
Yeah, I think I am the offender there. I can never remember how to spell rogue even though I am one, and I would have no occasion to use rouge or any other makeup.
MUTE point
mind BOTTLING
right off the BACK
for all INTENSIVE PURPOSES
Quote: djatcyou guys are all wrong
MUTE point
mind BOTTLING
right off the BACK
for all INTENSIVE PURPOSES
You can't excape DJAC, the walking libary.
Funny after I posted this, the ads started becoming totally irrelevant to me.Quote: onenickelmiracleI bought two kinds of ice cream the other day, Ben and Jerrys and Haagen Das at Walmart with cash. Just now see an ad from Walmart hawking ben and jerry's. I don't know if it is a coincidence or not. I didn't text anyone nor take pictures of the ice cream. The ice cream in the ad isn't what I ordered, it says try me today. the other ad is for a service have used before. Next ad for Breyers I've never bought, also for Walmart. I guess it's summer, but doesn't sit well with me wondering where this information is coming from.
Quote: onenickelmiracleI bought two kinds of ice cream the other day, Ben and Jerrys and Haagen Das at Walmart with cash. Just now see an ad from Walmart hawking ben and jerry's. I don't know if it is a coincidence or not. I didn't text anyone nor take pictures of the ice cream. The ice cream in the ad isn't what I ordered, it says try me today. the other ad is for a service have used before. Next ad for Breyers I've never bought, also for Walmart. I guess it's summer, but doesn't sit well with me wondering where this information is coming from.
Welcome to the club.
Quick read is that when the USSR first wanted to import Pepsi, the holdup was no other country wanted Russian rubles. They got around this by trading vodka for Pepsi. This worked for awhile but eventually the Soviets were importing so much Pepsi that other means were needed. It turns out the Soviets were looking to sell an entire fleet of obsolete submarines along side all their support vessels. Pepsi traded for them and for several months, until they were sold for scrap, owned one of the world's largest navy's.
We are the most prolific meddlers on the planet.Quote: RogerKintSounds like Pepsi was meddling with the Russian elections.
https://off-guardian.org/2018/02/19/yanks-to-the-rescue-times-not-so-secret-story-of-how-american-advisers-helped-yeltsin-win-the-1996-presidential-election/
Man oh man. Talk about a steaming pile of horse crap. Pretty much everything you could do wrong in an action flick.
not a great movie, only good, but what a performance by Duvall. the guy is a master.
he was 82 years old when he made it. he's still making movies and he's now 87.
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2018/07/investigates/maria-duval-psychic-scam-invs/index.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/5-year-old-gets-new-arm-at-the-home-depot/2018/07/30/fed35400-940f-11e8-80e1-00e80e1fdf43_story.html?utm_term=.1590c94040b1
Quote: billryanSharks can live out of water for extended periods. I saw a beached sand shark last overnight. My friend caught it and left it to die on the beach. It swam away with the tide the next day.
Well I felt better after reading this. The little fella I posted about is back home in good condition. Not a fella though. Lol. It's a female named Helen. Less than a year old.
Quote: onenickelmiracleSwear to God I think I'm starting to get turrets, I keep wanting to say bad words and it's irritating. Hope it passes.
When that happens to me, I'm mad about something beyond my control, or that's ginning around in the back of my head, unresolved. The anger comes out as the urge to random-curse something that doesn't merit the words.
Perhaps you have something bugging you and it's frustration.
Quote: onenickelmiracleSwear to God I think I'm starting to get turrets,...
You and me both, brother. One for every occasion.
Oops I made a big mistake.Quote: FaceYou and me both, brother. One for every occasion.
Worthwhile or scammy?
I'm guessing that all of this stuff is not actually 95% of the retail price.
Quote: RigondeauxWhat's the deal with the Wish app?
Worthwhile or scammy?
I'm guessing that all of this stuff is not actually 95% of the retail price.
Meh, it’s mostly just ultra cheap crap from China.
Some of it might be ok. You won’t have to spend much to find out.
Ali Express has a lot of the same stuff
I hate Jimmy Buffet
I hate his stupid restaurants
I hate his sh*tty $500 blender
And I hate his fans who call themselves “Parrotheads”
I’m going insane. SOME PEOPLE SAY THAT THERE’S A WOMAAAAAAANN TO BLAME
Help
It’s my own damn fault.
Quote: onenickelmiracleThis is a serious problem, you cannot buy a dozen donuts at Dunkin Donuts. I have not been there in a long time, but I look at the sign and it says a dozen is $8.99. I look at the crème horns, notice they specifically say $1.19 and my guard goes up(triggered). The woman says you have to pay extra if you want those. I buy them at Giant Eagle and they're donuts there, a dozen is a dozen. The sign should say a dozen donuts is sometimes $8.99. So I have to get round little mini versions of the donuts instead.
At a Dunkin Donuts in a casino it was cheaper to buy 2 half dozens than 1 dozen. Also half a dozen was only a few cents less than buying 6 donuts. Never buying from this place again, not because they rip you off but they never have cruellers which I like.
Quote: gamerfreakI have had the song Margaritaville stuck in my head for the better part of a week.
I hate Jimmy Buffet
I hate his stupid restaurants
I hate his sh*tty $500 blender
And I hate his fans who call themselves “Parrotheads”
I’m going insane. SOME PEOPLE SAY THAT THERE’S A WOMAAAAAAANN TO BLAME
Help
It’s my own damn fault.
Agree 100% but I do like his music. Landshark is simply horrible.
Bud Light 𝓛𝓲𝓶𝓮 and don't forget:
Bud Light 𝓞𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮
𝐘𝐔𝐂𝐊
barf me out. gag me with a spoon
Quote: lilredroostermillennial crap:
Bud Light 𝓛𝓲𝓶𝓮 and don't forget:
Bud Light 𝓞𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮
𝐘𝐔𝐂𝐊
barf me out. gag me with a spoon
Nope, I’ve never seen a millennial touch that garbage.
We all drink craft beer.
Bud Light and it’s carients are for washed up women in their 50’s who either smoke Newport’s or Virgina Slims.
Quote: lilredroostermillennial crap:
Bud Light 𝓛𝓲𝓶𝓮 and don't forget:
Bud Light 𝓞𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓰𝓮
𝐘𝐔𝐂𝐊
barf me out. gag me with a spoon
Eek! It's a Valley Girl! ;)
Quote:New Idaho Law Allows Slow Drivers in the Left Lane to be Ticketed
Thumbs up.
Take down those Scalawag granny driving road trolls.
Parker Solar Probe atop DeltaIV Heavy Rocket.
First time we've sent a probe to the sun.
Launch window opens at 3:33am eastern, 12:33 Vegas time. You should tune in a few minutes early if you're going to see it: if they launch, they'll almost always do it on the front of the window.
It's going to be spectacular. They haven't put up many big rockets since the Shuttle stopped in 2011.
https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive streaming live countdown. They're already on the air.
Quote: beachbumbabsBig launch tonight.
Parker Solar Probe atop DeltaIV Heavy Rocket.
First time we've sent a probe to the sun.
What is the purpose for this? What are we hoping to learn?
