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[quote]That is cool stuff. Do you have a link/source? I like history. I think that the photo you posted misses my house by a street or two. [/quote] I'm in the same area, but only moved in this area within the last 10 years. "Old Metairie Memories" group on facebook has a lot of good members with...

I10 in Orleans went through an existing well developed area when it was built In Metairie, there was hardly anything developed for I10 to go through at the time it was built eta: of course, trying to do anything about it now is a waste of time. It's already there, if there was a community dest...

[quote]“In contrast to the traditional naming practices that identify individuals as one of two distinct genders, we have chosen a non-Latinised portmanteau honouring the artist Jeremy Ayers and representing people that do not identify with conventional binary gender assignments – Strumigenys ayerst...

Due to the shortages, now is a really bad time to be picking parts out to build a rig. Especially for graphics cards. The prices are nuts. But it's a lot easier to find prebuilt rigs with good GPUs. I wouldn't normally suggest to buy a prebuild, but you might end up better off going that route ...

[quote]the "Giovanni Princip" moment [/quote] Wait, who? :rotflmao:...

The 3600 and 2070 are last gen but are certainly not dated The only way I would bother upgrading is if I could sell my parts at inflated eBay scarcity prices and then somehow score a deal on newer parts at MSRP but good luck with that Otherwise, it’s not worth bothering to upgrade that box rig...

[quote]That service has a similar cost to credit card processing[/quote] It's cheaper than credit card processing fees and also cheaper than paper accounting....

[quote] They wanted a check. I laughed my arse off and told them back in the 90s and 2000s, the last thing a business wanted was a check and risk it bouncing.[/quote] you do realize that this isn't the 90s or the 2000s anymore? They just scan the check electronically and initiate the transaction i...

I honestly pay very little attention to IBM these days, but I have a friend who worked for them for a few years and left some time before the pandemic. The major takeaway from relating his time spent there is that it is a sinking ship. ...

[quote]What was the message, for us straightlacers?[/quote] It’s not expressible in English. Drop acid or shrooms. ...

[quote]She still looks good for 62 years old.[/quote] uhh...

[img]https://i.imgur.com/yvOPJSM.jpg[/img]...

Haven’t we done this thread a bunch of times? eta: they’re usually gay fwiw...

If he’s only had sex with his wife twice in the past 5 years then it doesn’t sound like paying off the hooker would be doing anything except delaying the inevitable. Of course, this is probably all fake. ...

Wasn't he banned?...

[quote]I would encourage you read the court records and you will quickly see that the coffee machine was malfunctioning which is why it was so hot.[/quote] Literally every reference I can find to this case indicates that McDonald's Operations Manual stated that coffee had to be heated to this tem...

[quote]Why did people keep buying an undrinkable and unsafe drink?[/quote] oh wow. Is this really the argument you want to make?...

[quote]The McDonalds case was 100% legitimate. They knew the coffee machine was malfunctioning and refused to fix it. The coffee was boiling so hot that it scalded the woman with 3rd degree burns. Any moron would have stopped serving coffee from that machine weeks ago after all the complaints about ...

[quote]Who spilled the coffee?[/quote] The person who spilled the coffee was expecting the risk of coffee spillage to be a normal, reasonable risk. Instead, she got life-threatening injuries not consistent with a normal cup of spilled coffee. Therefore, McDonald's owes her the difference between ...

[quote]Is that normal for a kitchen appliance?[/quote] is 190F normal for a cup of coffee? eta: [quote]During the case, Liebeck's attorneys discovered that McDonald's required franchisees to hold coffee at 180–190 °F (82–88 °C). Liebeck's attorney argued that coffee should never be serve...