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    Manhattan kicked my fucking ass. Enter: Brooklyn
    Took that second stop on the L.

    I need to learn Cantonese.

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    Is ADD a good thing? Are people thinking faster?

    Is thinking faster a positive evolution or will it limit us?

    • I personally believe that ADD is an evolutionary vestige of the hunter/gatherer days. It provided advantage then, but it's a hinderance in todays' worldGnash
    • ADD isn't 'thinking faster,' btwGnash
    • not too sure about that - if you're hunting you must need the ability to focus on your prey?hans_glib
    • https://i.imgflip.co…Gnash
    • hyper-focus is the hallmark of ADD. perfectly suited for hunting.Gnash
    • ADD brains make bad farmers, but excellent huntersGnash
    • its fucking hellmugwart
    • tell me about it :/Gnash
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    i think i'm going to get a juicer, any recommendations?

    • brunettes for me, but i have a special place in my heart for red heads with freckles.Gnash
    • A good mallet should do the job.i_monk
    • Weird Al Yankovic used a pretty good tool to get the juice out.capn_ron
    • Have had a few Philips easy cleans. Can't go wrong..
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    • I just use the hand blender ... get a bit of a work out but its more or less the same!mugwart
    • Get a high heel instead. Judging from a qbner, it's a better choice.pango
    • Do it the old way mate: http://ultraimg.com/…OBBTKN
    • alot of good info here, thanks guys
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  • detritus-4

    Just had a gander at Boing Boing for the first time in a long time.

    I won't be back, to their site at least.

    Pressing Ctrl+F on my keyboard didn't, as expected, bring up a browser-level text search, instead it was hijacked by code on the page, insisting instead that I use the site's functionality.

    wtf?

    Furthermore, when I managed to force my browser's search functionality.. it barely even worked, because the changing 'live view' meant that the bits of the comment section where my search term might've been found weren't being rendered, despite my having literally just scrolled down a page or so.

    I'd've honestly expected a site with the heritage of BoingBoing would be the last to pull this sort of presumptuous HTML base function neutering dysfunctionality. Sad!

    • http://3.bp.blogspot…Gnash
    • <whinge>
      THE INTERNET'S
      NOT WHAT IT
      USED TO BE
      </whinge>
      detritus
    • Firefox's FAYT search works fine there.i_monk
    • lol gnash
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    • i more meant searching within the contents of the page itself - FAYT's the smart address bar thing, no?detritus
    • No, it's "find as you type", the text search thing you can pull up with ⌘F.i_monk
    • oh, right - that's what I was using, then - maybe it's a PC thing, but when I ctrl+F on their pages it pops the HTML search function in the top right.detritus
    • I've actually just noticed that if I hit Ctrl+F again (ie. twice), it pops the FF search dialogue, *ahem*.detritus
  • Hayzilla3

    Getting pretty annoyed with these notifications pop ups in Chrome for every bloody website these days.

    • Such as?
      Reminds me - I need to figure out how to permanently turn off geolocation and update popups in Firefox
      detritus
    • not suffered this and on latest version - v.occasionally I get one but it's rare.fadein11
    • turn them offmonospaced
    • so dumbpinkfloyd
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    Loving Williamsburg. There's a great energy here. Props to the community for maintaining the positive vibes. I think I'm going to stay a while.

    • All that area off the L is nice, all the way up to Myrtle Wyckoff stop. Check out the Jefferson stop and bring a camera.robotron3k
  • detritus1

    Currently working on a file named 'fannieSticks_01.ai'.

  • imbecile0

    anyone else using the b1 algorithm?

    • no, but I'm b1-curious - what is it?detritus
  • utopian0

    Should you do a credit freeze?

    Freezes are being promoted as a first line of defense in the Equifax breach, which potentially affected 143 million Americans. It is a more drastic step than credit monitoring, which alerts consumers to potentially fraudulent activity on their reports.

    https://www.yahoo.com/finance/ne…

    • How to freeze your credit
      https://www.usatoday…
      utopian
    • Call & Ask
      Equifax — 1-800-349-9960
      Experian — 1‑888‑397‑3742
      TransUnion — 1-888-909-8872
      Innovis — 1-800-540-2505
      imbecile
    • The only catch, they give you passwords you can't lose. And you need to temporarily release your credit if it's going to be checked.robotron3k
    • i just signed up for zander insurance identity theft monitoring. covers all credit and others for $6.75/monthcapn_ron
    • ^ it's a trapGnash
    • i will take the risk it is a trap.capn_ron
    • jk, I have no idea. this whole thing is scary. I'd heard their password in one territory was 'admin'Gnash
    • capn_ron ... yep.bklyndroobeki
  • detritus0

    welp, that's it, i've just put a thermal on underneath my sweat-tee thing, so summer's officially fucked up the ass.

    Still wearing shorts, but those days are singularly numbered.

    • Down here (PT) it's getting chilly too, only 22°C...
      Maybe next week will get to 26°C
      dmay
    • Same here... I just got dressed in a thermal vest, autumn is here, rains out and my garden plants are dying, cats sleeping all dayOBBTKN
    • But I do not give up, tomorrow going to a book presentation in a friend's museum, i'll prepare a bbq after it :)OBBTKN
    • Bought one of this for the cold days: https://b.zmtcdn.com…OBBTKN
    • you guys are lucky we're still on 30+ here.renderedred
    • starting to cool down a few degrees here as well. still warm tho, I dream of jacket weather.sea_sea
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    Omgggg squares are so uptiiight....relaxxxx

    • Hey Daddy-O, don't get frosted by the cubes.detritus
    • my mellow was harshed some time agoGnash
    • My flakes were frosted on the kellogg
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    • they're not squares!
      they're diamonds!
      pango
  • bklyndroobeki5

    remembered i have ice cream tucked away from myself in the fridge... and got a dopamine hit.

    • what flavor? :)sea_sea
    • Neopolitan, but discovered they skimped on the chocolate. Hate when they do that.bklyndroobeki
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    A friend of mine was late for a boat on holiday in France and somehow managed to crush her foot under the draw bridge type thing that you walk on to the boat via. They threw it down for get last minute but she was about to jump. Hard to picture how it happened exactly but sadly it did.

    Anyway, have just heard this morning that it's so bad they're going to have to amputate her big toe and the toe next to it. Fucking brutal. Feeling really rather emotional right now, and to think I was stressing the other day over losing a pair of sunglasses.

    Treasure what you have, you glorious cunts.

    • Losing a big toe is serious - it is the balance point for your foot - without you can't walk properly. People have a thumb transplanted as a replacement.face_melter
    • https://pbs.twimg.co…
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    • and to think i thought i was the biggest idiot most of you knewimbecile
    • What self referential nonsense are you spewing now?
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    • Faaaack, that's gotta hurt. I stub my toe and turn into a 4 y/o. Yeah, I've seen the transplanted thumb thing on Vice or something.fyoucher1
    • suck big time. send her my bestsureshot
    • I'd rather have a thumb than a big toe I think
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    • Hopefully there's a prosthetic to keep balancepinkfloyd
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    I've only made 5 dollars in nyc in a week and I've managed to lose my 17 year old longboard, my Ray Bradbury book, a Tito Puente cd, some Tom Ford shades (sorry Susi), and Ive practically damaged all of my novels. But F it, long live adventure.

    • How did you make the $5?
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    • CD? You carry CD's around? You got a disc man?ArmandoEstrada
    • haha i found it in Harlem.
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    • but I found the Tom Fords yeeeaahhhh
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    • you damaged your novels!?monospaced
    • Yeah they have dings. Near mint now. Got some mints at desert island tho :)
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    • so confused and intrigued. $5? How? just how? keep us posted.capn_ron
    • well, ron, i took a picture for a disabled lasdy and she gave me 3 bucks and a rapper gave me 2 bucks when I asked him for a cigarette.
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  • robotron3k0

    Am I the only one who's interested in Canelo and GGG?

    http://www.stream2watch.ru/boxin…

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    Just had to stop myself from correcting the Dalai Lama's grammar on twitter

    • lolsea_sea
    • Your sentence does not have a period.bklyndroobeki
    • I was about to hit the full stop key and then start a new sentence 'Also just to let everyone know, bklyndroobeki is a big stinky shit head.'
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    • ... but must have been distracted
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    • ^ lolztrooperbill
    • Do it!mugwart
    • “Hartman’s Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation states that any article or statement about correct grammar, punctuation, or spelling is bound to contain at leasti_monk
    • one error."i_monk
  • sofas0

    I think that for most people there are different logics applied to different realms of life. Different premises, rules, values etc.

    I'm like that too sometimes, but other times I don't understand it, and then it feels like i'm interacting with a fly that is trying to exit a car with open windows, banging against the windshield.

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    My neighbors are a working class asian family and have a disabled daughter who's like 20 and non-verbal and sits around in a wheelchair on their front porch half the day.

    They're always home, probably because of her and seemingly very loving and caring.

    I can't imagine how complicated that makes things for them. It must be tough.

    • Ever talk with them?bklyndroobeki
    • send a pic, I can spot a faker. I've seen a few in my day..futurefood
    • They don't really speak English.
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    • I'm sure you can figure communication out. Introduce yourself.bklyndroobeki
    • is she hot?sarahfailin
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    Have a friend who's older and one of the nicest people I know. But she comes from a lousy family.

    Her parents divorced and her Dad bounced. Her Mom is across the country and never comes to visit or offer to help her out.

  • PonyBoy0

    I don't think I've ever seen an Aronofsky movie get shit on so hard as much as his new movie (starring Jennifer Lawrence)... actually I don't think I've ever seen an 'F' rating for that matter.

    ‘Mother!’ Is the Worst Movie of the Year, Maybe Century
    http://observer.com/2017/09/darr…

    Darren Aronofksy's 'mother!' Banished to Infamous F CinemaScore Club
    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com…

    • wowmonospaced
    • yikesinteliboy
    • only aronofsky flick i wasn't excited aboutscarabin
    • oh dear... he does seem to have gone downhill with each successive film though (apart from the early ones).fadein11
    • although Black Swan was good.fadein11
    • Eh? I was under the impression it's supposed to be brilliant?detritus
    • It's getting mixed to decent reviews...probably not the worst film, but just too weird for a mass audience.yuekit
    • Especially an audience of Jennifer Lawrence fans who probably expected a straightforward drama or horror flick.yuekit