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If your name is Benjamin Golub and your lawyer's initials are DLA I'd consider finding a new one. She's mistakenly sent me 3 emails w/ personal information about your case. I've contacted her on each occasion and she has apologized but it doesn't seem to stick.
Kol Tregaskes, April Russo (app103), Ruchira S. Datta and 14 other people liked this
Wow. That's scary.
- Admiral Anika
Novermber 13 and June 9 were the other dates: http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Benjamin Golub
That happened to me for a while, only the chick (same name) was trying to send sensitive corporate documents to HERSELF. She got her own e-mail address wrong.
- Lo
Jeebus H.
- Ayşe E.
onoes...
- Archangel ωαřмaiden
My minions with the duvet covers they folded together. - http://faboomama.tumblr.com/post...
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I'm gonna put Jessep on the stand.
Morton Fox, Kelly, Penguin It's Cold Outside and 3 other people liked this
knowwhatimean? nudge, nudge, saynahmore, saynahmore... http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Anthony Citrano
Every time I see the name 'Jessep', I think about Altered States.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I don't think he can handle the truth
- Matt Hilton
What possible good could come from putting Jessep on the stand?
- Ken Sheppardson
You put him on the stand and you get it from him!
- Anthony Citrano
I object. I strenuously object!
- Rene Wirtz
"I don't know what the hell kind of unit you're running here."
- MikeAmundsen
@Rene: yes, she does.
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
"I strenuously object?" Is that how it works? Hm? "Objection." "Overruled." "Oh, no, no, no. No, I STRENUOUSLY object." "Oh. Well, if you strenuously object then I should take some time to reconsider."
- MikeAmundsen
No truth-handler you! Bah! I deride your truth-handling abilities!
- Andrew C
Will this epic rumble in the jungle be exploding soon? I want to know when to order the party-keg of popcorn.
- WorldofHiglet
@WoH - honestly, I don't know. I am wavering... a little. If I don't chicken out, then maybe Saturday. Or maybe never.
- Anthony Citrano
To be honest, Anthony, I can understand you being unsure. While I'm absolutely sure you are right and have evidence etc - the resources, vested interests and plain spite on the other side makes them a formidable enemy. I'm not sure that victory would be worth it unless the publicity helped you. You will definitely get to test whether there really is no such thing bad publicity. If they...
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- WorldofHiglet
Just remember, Anthony, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns
- Ken Sheppardson
@WoH: but what if your "if" has already occurred?
- Anthony Citrano
Then, depending on the situation, you could lose either way. If you don't stand up to it they might forget it or they might decide to grind your bones to make their bread. Either way your reputation is on the line and silence will almost certainly be taken as admission of guilt. Attack is the best form of defense and they have made the first move. If it was me, I would issue a...
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- WorldofHiglet
How I got fired... - http://meme.yahoo.com/wrzl...
Aytac Dilek, Ron Hagenhoff, veli bahceci and 210 other people liked this
Forkliftçiyi kurtarmak için AKUTU felan çağırmak lazım :)
- Hamza Şamlıoğlu @TEAkolik
bence sadece bi imam lazım başında okusun,orda gömüldü zaten :D
- Sercan Türk
Allah rahmet eylesin
- Yasar Yigit Kacmaz
photoshop :))
- antique™
sercan hahhaha :))
- ✔ Sɑde C
Zımbırtılar düşmeye başlayınca eleman sinyal veriyor. Tarraaaa yedik demeye çalışıyor.
- Burçin Mumcuoğlu
Sağdaki kutulardan çıkanlar kağıt da soldakilerden çıkan küpler ne ola ki?
- Özer (Wrzl) Dölekoğlu
o küplerin hepsi ayrı ayrı kutu heralde icinde ne var bilmiyoz tabi :P
- mbtemiz
sınyal trafıkden ceza yememek ıcın herhalde :P ama elemanın dusundugunden farklı gelısıyo :P
- Gökhan ELBİR
:))
- Nima Nilian ★
ölenin arkasından konuşulmaz ama arkadaşlar günaha giriosunuz :D
- Sercan Türk
:(
- sistema428
lol
- echostreamer
bu kaza rusya'da meydana gelmisti. haberini yazmistim. acayip kaza ya kutularin icinde icki vodka falan filan var. gitti güzelim ickiler :)
- Cagdas Seichter
OMG! lol
- Bluesun 2600
ROFLMAO!
- MikeAmundsen
or How I almost got Killed !
- johnpiercy
herif nokta atışı yapmıs resmen.
- Melih Dalar
bir şirketin çöküşü ve salak bir eleman izlediniz :)
- Arapprensi
Maaşına zam, işine son...
- reha37
yuhh yaaa ne bu
- nef
photoshop diyen arkadaşı kınıyorum =)
- eric
kutular da "biri dokunsa da yıkılsak" diye bekliyormuş sanki :)
- Mehmet Alkulak
sigortadan para almak icin yapmışlardır:P
- Tuncay Aydin
raf sistemi tonaja göre yapılmamış proje hatası var tek sıra raf olmaz ve raf başlarında derbe demirleri olması gerekiyor herhangi böyle çarpmaları engellemek için.
- serhan
operatöre birşey olmamışdır forkliftte korkuluk sağlamdır;)
- serhan
oyy bu ne bee!!
- Ülkünur Arslan
işyerinde iş güvenliği ile ilgili hiç bir düzenleme yapılmamış. rezalet.
- Evrim
operatöre bir şey olmamıştır tabi, olsa olsa kafayı bulmuştur kafasının üzerindeki onlarca içki şişesi ile..
- Erinç Çakır
diğer forklift kaçıyor ama öteki rafa yakalanıyor
- serhan
zararın 250bin dolarlık vodka olduğu söyleniyor
- irfan ÖZTÜRK
yılbaşında alkole zam nerden çıkaracaklar o parayı:))
- serhan
hadi votkaları sineye çekerlerde o raf sistemini kurmak votka zararının üç katı onu napıcaklar sigortaları yoksa eğer.
- serhan
iyi olmuş iyi... öyle bir darbede yıkılacak raf durmasın zaten...
- Oguz Kaan C Kilinc (okck)
diğer forkliftçi de tırsak tırak kaçıyor fonda... :)
- Oguz Kaan C Kilinc (okck)
kaçıyorda diğer rafa yakalanıyor:))
- serhan
her rafta üç palet var raflar 3 ton taşımay kapastelidir fazla yüklenmiş paletler yüksek daha ağırdır zaten dokunsan labirent gibi gidicekmiş gitmişde zaten.
- serhan
:)
- ★ Soner Gönül
Viski deposumuydu o depo?
- mustafa can
iş yerinden kovulmak bir yana,1 yıllık iş çıkmıştır tekrar yeni düzen için.neyse 1 yıl daha çalışıtırırlar galiba:)))))
- şafak başkılıç
köyü yıkmış
- Eşref Atak
owww
- Hande Ünver
amanınnn... domino efekti...
- lalhitay
fail
- Ömer Suner
LMFAO
- Itachi
Lockerz'ın binaya benziyo sadksa :d
- şafak O
yuhanzi
- ermania
zaten birgün yıkılacakmış..
- beyazeldiven
"MOSCOW, Russia - A big "whoops" for one employee operating a forklift inside a liquor warehouse in Russia. A security camera capturing the incident as the forklift plows into a shelf which causes it to collapse into another one. As a result, hundreds of boxes of vodka come crashing down. It is estimated $170,000 worth of alcohol was destroyed." [http://go.mamund.com/ydq3]
- MikeAmundsen
oh shitttttttttttt
- VAL D. Zone
that was just simply overloaded it was bound to happen
- VAL D. Zone
hahahaha, bambaskaymis bu :)))
- Orkut Ozdemirci
Good grief. They're lucky if they weren't killed. I hope they weren't hurt. That looks like a case of a poorly constructed warehouse to me. That kind of chain reaction shouldn't be able to happen just because of one little bump like that. The shelves fell into pieces and everything.
- Kamilah Gill
heheheheee I love Drinkin' on da Job!!
- Billy Warhol
Kitap bağış kampanyasına çağrı... Kitaplarınızı "Başak Sayan / Mustafa Esen" adına Aydın Üniversitesi Sefaköy İstanbul adresine gönderin. Tam adres : Aydın Üniversitesi İnönü Caddesi. Beşyol Mahallesi. No:40. Sefaköy / İstanbul. (Aras Kargo ile ücretsiz) -
- muhammet ali demir
Raflar 4 katlı, her bir raf yüksekliği 1mt.den fazla bile olsa en fazla 5-6 metre eder. O nedenle ince ayaklar ve traversler kullanılmış. Raflar üstten (back to back) birbirine bağlı değil. Raf sırtlarında çapraz bağlantılar yok. Raf arası koridorlarda raylar da yok. Hiç bir rafın ayakları dış etkenlere karşı korumasız olamaz. Daha bugün taktırdım yeni raf ayaklarına 12 adet ve 80 cm...
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- Murat Esenli
wow! yikes!
- Valley
we call it "chain reaction"
- Doritos değil Panço
holy crap..He/she should sue for unsafe work envoirnment :)-
- Peter Dawson
=))))))))))))
- EhsanDiary
upps
- dogan kaya berktas
hay aksiii ..
- irmak
bu arada sanki suç sadece forklifti kullanan da değil.. böyle domino effect bi depo yapmak da bi garip :)
- Doritos değil Panço
X is dead. Y wins! Why does the winner always have to kill the loser? Can't we all just get along? It's like your colon and bacterial flora. Everything in its place, is what I say.
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Is this really the analogy you want?
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
a colon game, now that's an idea!
- MikeAmundsen
*knock at the door* Z wants in.
- Micah Wittman
(oh great... I may have inadvertantly started a reddit pun thread.)
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
FF threads can't go 77 indents deep, so I'm not worried.
- Micah Wittman
Maybe I do need a better analogy, but why can't two platforms exist in symbiosis, function as an ecosystem? Just because prokaryotes were literally engulfed by eukaryotes sometime on the evolutionary time line doesn't mean that the latter has killed the former, nor that the latter is more successful than the former.
- Victor Ganata
Because my brother has a keyboard and isn't afraid to use it.
- Alex Scoble
Some people only understand zero sum games.
- Brian Sullivan
I love the pure geekiness of that analogy.
- Katy S
Does eating a lot of salt make your fingers swell? We ate fried chicken from KFC last night and now both of us are having issues with our rings being tighter than they were yesterday.
Kol Tregaskes, Morton Fox, sofarsoShawn and 4 other people liked this
Salt binds up water in your body, doesn´t it ? That could cause general swelling perhaps.. (btw, I first read that as "onion rings being tighter.." :))
- Thomas Bøhm
Makes sense to me. Water crossing cell membranes to try to equalize salt concentration?
- ha3rvey (free hugs!)
from fftogo
Definitely. Women who are trying to squeeze into wedding dresses will sometimes go on very low sodium diets for a week or so before, hoping to prevent any extra swelling from salt intake.
- Rochelle
often is the oil used in frying foods that can cause join swelling [http://www.back-pain-treatment...]
- MikeAmundsen
Yep, no learning occurring here either. :)
- Alex Scoble
Perhaps your fingers are fine but there is a shrinking effect on your rings... oh, wait, we're thinking different things here aren't we?
- Mark H
+1 to Mark H
- MikeAmundsen
ahahahah mark:)
- pudra
I'm having an obtuse moment and am failing to get Mark's joke.
- Alex Scoble
You've have to eat pounds of salt and/or gallons of water to make yourself swell up. At least, assuming your kidney and your heart are OK. I have no idea why your rings are tighter.
- Victor Ganata
Alex, I don't get his joke, either.
- Rochelle
I notice from time to time that my fingers swell up so much it is hard to get my ring off and other times it slips right off with no effort. I have never tried to correlate my finger swelling with diet or activity though. Seems like you would have to eat an awful lot of salt to cause swelling like that though.
- Jeff P. Henderson
I did mention that we had KFC fried chicken right? :)
- Alex Scoble
Yes a high salt content will swell you as salt makes you thirst and also sulfates in wines, your body will hold on to it's water. There are some herbs that do work to reduce swelling and water retention under the skin...such as dandelion, corn silk, horsetail, juniper, goldenroot, potasium, horse chestnut. Here's the site for you to read up on if truly interested. http://www.water-retention.net/... is a great way to shed some pounds if you read and understand how you bloat and swell to begin with.
- Jeunelle Foster
My fingers swelled a lot during the summer; it seems to be correlated to weather more than diet for me (I don't eat a lot of salt generally).
- joey
Here is some info on Edema, which is the name for the body accumulating fluid beneath the skin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Jeff P. Henderson
If you can physically feel the effects of salt, I highly recommend getting your blood pressure checked out (if you haven't recently). My boyfriend felt adverse effects when eating too much salt, turned out he was pretty badly hypertensive. But this is probably something else.
- Lo
Nominating and electing Obama was a big mistake
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I supported Obama's nomination and election, with a few doubts and reservations, but now I realize that the doubts and reservations were right on the money. That's my strong feeling after hearing Howard Dean speak about health care reform today. Dean sounds smarter than Obama and more principled than Obama. He has a backbone -- he's not just an empty suit with a glib line of patter.
- Sean McBride
The disgust level with Obama, with his key appointments and with the Democratic Party in general is rising strongly among Democrats themselves. I think they are beginning to figure out that Rahm Emanuel and Joseph Lieberman are not representing their interests, and that Obama intends to systematically betray every promise he made in his campaign for the nomination.
- Sean McBride
So: the Republicans may have an excellent chance of staging a strong comeback in the next elections -- many Democrats are not going to bother to vote. What a windfall for the Republicans, who many people thought were permanently finished -- a Democratic president who has massively screwed over his own base.
- Sean McBride
Pretty sure dems will tuurn out to vote in force. Especially if the other choice is Palin again.
- Archangel ωαřмaiden
I'm betting that many Democrats are looking forward to sending a strong message to the currently decrepit Democratic Party, in the form of a 2x4 to the head. But much can happen between now and the next election. We shall see. Hearing Howard Dean speak today reminded me that there is such a thing as courageous leadership -- a character trait that Obama is missing entirely.
- Sean McBride
This speech ? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...
- Eric Logan
Eric -- that, and even better, this: http://www.onpointradio.org/2009... Howard Dean in his own voice, on audio, from On Point Radio today (Tom Ashbrook's show). I had forgotten what it was like for a politician to speak with clarity, force, integrity, courage and intellectual honesty. Obama is striking me more and more as a classical bullsh*t artist -- I can't believe I was taken in by his rap for even a minute, not to mention months.
- Sean McBride
I would absolutely vote for Sarah Palin in the next election if she were running against Obama -- just to apply to some electroshock therapy to the Democratic Party.
- Sean McBride
Thanks, I will listen to it.
- Eric Logan
Dean's role right now is as an activist. He certainly wasn't known for being a far left firebrand when he was actually NH governor.
- Andrew C
It's easy for Dean to look courageous when he doesn't have the responsibility of getting a bill passed. Getting a comprehensive reform bill passed requires getting cooperation from the Liebermans and Nelsons and Landrieus as much as that hurts. That means a willingness to compromise on short term goals, like it or not. Dean would do the same thing if he were president or majority leader.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Well, not just easy to look courageous - I would argue that as an activist, he damn well should be pushing a left position. I don't necessarily agree with him on the kill-the-bill idea, but there should be someone out there pushing for better HCR.
- Andrew C
empty suit, glib line of patter... reminds me of GWB
- anna sauce
GWB could barely scrape two words together; probably the least glib person in public life I've ever noticed. Obama is a skilled orator -- but his orations are sounding more and more hollow with each passing month. His Nobel Peace Prize speech was a turning point for me -- a very pretty speech which tried to rationalize the Afpak War without a shred of actual persuasive reasoning. I...
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- Sean McBride
Obama is a disappointment but really he wasn't a liberal except perhaps in our projections and hopes but remember Obama appoints a dozen cabinet members, hundreds of department heads, literally thousands of committees each any and certainly all in total that have huge impact on our lives property and quality of life. I would much rather a democrat any democrat appoint the people in...
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- WarLord
I've only got two thoughts here. 1) If Sarah Palin EVER becomes President then I will be out of the country and prepare for the downfall of this country. She is the dumbest waste of space that I have ever seen come out of politics. 2) Obama hasn't even been President a full year yet. And personally I think that he has done a decent job. Yes, I do think that he needs to be doing more...
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- Mathew™ one of a kind
I think expectations were just too high. After GWB things were so incredibly bad that Obama seemed like a political messiah who would swoop in and restore everything (peace, economy, UHC, etc). Of course Obama is gonna fail that mission impossible. I too am disappointed, but more so in the Dems as a party than in just Obama. With a majority across the board they can't even keep their...
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- Rene Wirtz
anna sauce got me thinking about the meaning of the word "glib," and whether I correctly understood it. The Google define command produced this: <quote>artfully persuasive in speech; "a glib tongue"; "a smooth-tongued hypocrite"</quote> So I think I used the word appropriately to describe Obama in contrast to GWB, who was anything but "artfully persuasive in speech." Regarding Obama: "a...
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- Sean McBride
Something to think about: the hard right and neoconservatives are much more aggressive, ruthless and clamorous about promoting their agenda than progressives are in promoting theirs. That is why Obama rolled over so quickly for the neoliberal (neoconservative) wing of the Democratic Party, and why Netanyahu and Lieberman treat Obama as a joke and a plaything. Progressives think that the...
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- Sean McBride
@Sean: that's very accurate. Historically, there's never been much consensus within the Dems, and it show beautifully now: even with a majority in Congress in the House, they are still bickering and fighting over commas. You can dislike the Reps all day long, but they know how to present a united front and make things happen. Still, I wouldn't blame this on Obama, because even people like Teddy Kennedy couldn't get all his party members to pull in the same direction.
- Rene Wirtz
Rene -- I really don't blame it all on Obama -- he is simply bending to the strongest pressure, choosing the path of the least resistance. If he put up a fight against the neoliberal wing of the Democratic Party, it would find a find a way to break him, and he knows it. The progressive wing of the party lacks the money and power to defend him, and they barely possess the backbone to...
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- Sean McBride
Who Obama most reminds me of these these days: Tony Blair. A neocon in progressive clothing. Blair pulled a fast one on the Brits, and Obama pulled a fast one on Americans. And the same lobby is pulling the strings of both of these politicians.
- Sean McBride
My candy cane ain't made of candy...
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- Bette Cooper
*raises eyebrows* Tell me more.
- Admiral Anika
Hmm...there was an image associated with this but didn't appear. I'll leave it for comedic value hahaha
- Mo Kargas
lol! :)
- Amy
uh... i think you need to put that thing away!
- MikeAmundsen
is it gold plated?
- Joe Pierce
......... o_O
- Ms Penny Claus
CAN I GET A WHUT WHUT?
- Derrick
Was it made of PVC?
- Morton Fox
PVC and lasers don't mix...
- Mo Kargas
???????
- VAL D. Zone
HUH ?
- johnpiercy
But is it sweet? o_O
- Anna Haro
I couldn't tell you
- Mo Kargas
yeah, well my candy raises Cain.
- Jim Is Not Smart
^_o
- Mo Kargas
I want to lick it but I fear getting sticky hands if I hold it for to long.
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
0_________________0
- Mo Kargas
Johnny wins.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
And just what did Johnny win, Alex? ;-P
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Happy holidays from the FriendFeed crew! - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008...
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Thanks to Kevin for another great logo...
- Bret Taylor
YAY! Snowmens!
- Yolanda
Cool logo! :)
- AJ Batac
I think they need scarves. They look cold.
- Yolanda
Great logo! Simple and fun.
- Brandon Titus
great :) çok sevdim bu logoyu :)
- Burak Budak
Cool :D
- Pedram
Kevin - that is an awesome logo!!!!!
- Susan Beebe
A nice tribute to Bill Waterson :)
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
+102 for Bill Waterson references in picture Kevin or words Sinterclas
- Steve C
cute but what happened to festivus this year?
- Laura Norvig
Merry Christmas to the FriendFeed team. You guys rock! FriendFeed reacts quickly and you're adding wonderful features all the time (Thanks soooo much for the "edit" feature.)
- Mitchell Tsai
Happy Festivus!
- ◄ani625Ξ
Happy festive season to you all as well :)
- Niki Costantini
Happy Holidays!!!
- David Cook
love it~
- Sunny
Love!!!
- BeeLing
Glad you like it! (And glad people picked up on the Waterson influence :-)
- Kevin Fox
Merry Christmas! :D
- Ron
Happy Holidays FF crue -- you've made this an excellent and memorable year for many of us. Facebook couldn't have done it without you! :)
- Christopher Galtenberg
w00t you gave me the best online year in 15 years!!! ;p Thanks a lot, everyone, for what you've done here XD
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Merry Christmas to all
- Craig Eddy
Merry Christmas!
- Svein Håvard Djupvik
Haha! I love horrified snowmen. Merry Christmas to FriendFeed!
- Chris Lasher
Joyeux Noel a tout le monde!
- Mathieu Ayel
Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays!
- Anne Bouey
Feliz navidad a ti!
- JA Castillo
Thanks! Happy Holidarys! Merry Christmas!
- Bill Romanos
happy christmas, chanukah and kwanzaa.
- D. Eda Goze
happy chrismas and a happy new year!!!
- ethan meccage
That's when they loved us :(
- Christopher Harley
Awwwww sniff
- Kevin Fox
Happy holidays! Take good care of yourselves and... enjoy those days off! <o> \o,
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Merry Christmas!
- Ian May
Tks and love you all !!!
- Renchin(Reina)
ahh, the good ol' days.
- MikeAmundsen
Happy Holidays FriendFeers! <superbump />
- AJ Batac
cool!!
- Ferzvladimir
*bump*
- imabonehead
Sigh. Sometimes it is the little touches, like seasonal logos or easter eggs, that mark a site as a living project, and that you really miss when the developers have all moved on to something else.
- Michael R. Bernstein
ای جان چقدر خوبه این
- WALL.E
1 yıl geçmiş üzerinden bretim taylorum vay anasına dimi..
- Taylan GERDAN (Tylolhot)
7 Deadly Sins that Lead to Hoarding | Charles & Hudson - http://www.charlesandhudson.com/archive...
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"Apparently hoarding is a real disease according to Oprah and the impulse for some people to not only keep everything but collect and "hoard" is uncontrollable. Look out for these 7 deadly sins that lead to hoarding."
- Morton Fox
from Bookmarklet
Uh oh...
- Derrick
What a poorly worded article. It's a real disease according to psychiatrists, not just according to Oprah.
- Rochelle
oh GAH. That show called Hoarders creeps me out. it's an empty milk container. THROW IT OUT. Or at least wash it.
- Archangel ωαřмaiden
attended a house fire , last week .. that had the identical garage ,,,, <RANT>please make it easy for emergency crews for to reach the important areas of the house ..
- johnpiercy
I'm fascinated by the hoarders' show. Interesting- one woman, it was easy to clean out her house, and that worried the psychologist, that she didn't have more of an emotional time letting go of thigns.
- anna sauce
attachment to things as an outward manifestation of trauma is surely a 20th century thing
- MikeAmundsen
Heck I tend to keep things 'just in case' but only useful stuff, like computer spares etc.
- Ian May
every december/january i toss potloads of stuff i've accumulated over the year. anything worthwhile goes to the donation pile, all else hits the recycle or trash. always feels great.
- MikeAmundsen
my (late) fathers garages were worse than this ... this brings back bad memories
- johnpiercy
I can't even handle the commercials for Hoarders. I have too much stuff and can be a bit of a pack rat, but it's nothing close to what these people do. They're ill. We had several bad hoarding cases around here last summer that involved animals. It is really sad.
- Katy S
Yeah I'm always shocked to find out that kids grew up in those hoarding houses. Insane.
- anna sauce
It is now against the law in San Francisco to throw away a Mr Potato Head - he must be recycled, or you will be fined.
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drewphish: @dewitt I have used the Yellow Pages in the last five years to help middle school tuba players reach their mouthpieces. Does that count? - http://twitter.com/drewphi...
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LOL! just this week, as i grabbed the y-pages my son called out "ah, dad - that's old school search!"
- MikeAmundsen
After the thousands of dollars I've spent at BestBuy over the past few months, they won't let me use a reward zone card to buy a gift card!
MikeAmundsen liked this
BestBuy is stoopid.
- MikeAmundsen
That's in the TOS!
- Admiral Anika
<work mode suspended> <holiday mode initiated>
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what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
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"...especially with my wife, who is a dirty, dirty tramp."
- Jeremy (quasimodo)
"JUST DO IT!"
- MikeAmundsen
Museum Victoria: Tool use in Veined Octopus - http://museumvictoria.com.au/coconut...
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"Museum Victoria’s Julian Finn and Mark Norman have recorded the first case of tool use – sophisticated behaviour generally limited to mammals and birds – in an invertebrate. The Veined Octopus, Amphioctopus marginatus, uses foreign objects for shelter, which is common in octopuses and is not itself considered tool use. However the Veined Octopus goes a step further and prepares, manipulates and carries coconut shells up to 20 metres to reassemble its shelter elsewhere."
- William Harryman
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Watch for Ice - http://gatekeeper.tumblr.com/post...
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wheeeeeeeeeee
- Bren -- Loves Chrimmuh
Me As A Kid Meme
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A bit late I know... :)
- Johnny Worthington
And for our Australian viewers... I'm wearing a Humphrey B Bear shirt... he's skateboarding
- Johnny Worthington
John: Your mom is absolutely gorgeous! LOVE both of those pictures!! :)
- Mona Nomura
@Patricia Hey, C'mon, Fat Cat had suspenders covering his nipples! @Mona, She still is :)
- Johnny Worthington
*bump*
- Rodfather
Cute!
- Carmen
BTW Rodfather thanks for all the bumping
- Steve C
Worth a bump... Find yours!
- Johnny Worthington
No. You find mine. No self-bumping! (Hairy palms and all that)
- Louis Gray
dad's Tony Montana style shirt+necklace combo = EPIC
- Bora Mesut PALAS
so full of win!
- Rabia Sozkesen
My sessions with The Joe Henderson Memorial Big Band - http://atmosmusic.posterous.com/my-sess...
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- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
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Bummed this band isn't together any longer.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
The 10 Most-Respected Global Warming Skeptics - http://www.businessinsider.com/the-ten...
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Physicist Freeman Dyson has been a giant in his field for decades. But the British-born, Princeton-based professor has gained notoriety for his "heretical" views on climate change. While he does acknowledge the mechanism by which man-made greenhouse gasses can influence the climate, he claims current models are way too simplistic to capture what's really going on in the real world. In March, he was featured in the NYT Magazine for his controversial views.
- Eric Logan
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"Dyson agrees that anthropogenic global warming exists, and has written "One of the main causes of warming is the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere resulting from our burning of fossil fuels such as oil and coal and natural gas" More recently, he has endorsed the now common usage of "global warming" as synonymous with global anthropogenic climate change, referring to recent...
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- MikeAmundsen
"My objections to the global warming propaganda are not so much over the technical facts, about which I do not know much, but it’s rather against the way those people behave and the kind of intolerance to criticism that a lot of them have." Freeman Dyson, June 2009 [http://www.e360.yale.edu/content...]
- MikeAmundsen
Thanks, Mike, We obviously can't breathe tail pipe emissions. I believe that the biosphere at some point on the exponential scale becomes a closed system. That system is sensitive to population increase probably more than our present use of fossil fuels. Large populations on earth live in squalor not because of environmental degradation. They actually live in squalor due to lack of technological innovation and an accompanying modern economy.
- Eric Logan
population is a far bigger problem, IMO, than any other single item. even less likely that anything meaningfully pre-emptive will be done on that front.
- MikeAmundsen
Thank you for sharing this.
- Internet Strategist
Wait -- so Freeman Dyson doesn't fit the profile of most of the global warming "skeptics" out there (religious fundamentalists, Sarah Palins, Glenn Becks), right? He acknowledges the problem of AGW?
- Sean McBride
Sigh. There is so much disinformation and propaganda that most have no idea where the Truth lies or how to apply logic that is not clouded by all they've been fed their entire lives. There is ample abundance for all if it is equally distributed; greed and some taking far more than they need and stealing what those who care send that is the cause of hunger and most every other challenge facing our planet today.
- Internet Strategist
My sessions with The Joe Henderson Memorial Big Band - http://atmosmusic.posterous.com/my-sess...
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I played with The Joe Henderson Memorial Big Band led by Warren Gale Jr. until until mid 2009 when, due to CA state budget cuts, the group had to be disbanded. This was a stellar group of musicians, many of whom played with Joe over the course of his long career. These tunes were recorded in a 2007 session. Trumpets: Warren Gale, John Christensen, Dave Fava Trombones: Jules Rowles, Chuck Bennett Saxes: Mel Martin, Pete Yellin, Tim Divine, Jean Fineberg, Dave Tidball, Jim Rothermel, Amelia Timbang Catalano Rhythm Section: Rob Michael: Guitar, Dave Udolf & Benny Watson: Piano, Paul Smith: Bass, Bob Belanski: Drums <a href=" Zolton by AtmosTrio ">Zolton</a> by <a href=" Latest tracks by AtmosTrio ">AtmosTrio</a> Black by AtmosTrio Short Story by AtmosTrio See and download the full gallery on posterous Permalink | Leave a comment »
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
Stonehenge - http://likaholix.com/katkimj...
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I liked it there..............peaceful
- VAL D. Zone
Photos of Amazon.com fulfillment center | Doobybrain.com - http://www.doobybrain.com/2009...
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It's like Costco, but more awesome!
- Kevin Fox
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awesome... that's where the stuff comes from !!!
- Harold
one of these just a few miles from my house. one. bug. giant. box. of. stuff.
- MikeAmundsen
Dang.
- Derrick
So amazing. There's one in Plainfield, IN, near where Harold used to live, too.
- Kamilah Gill
Reminds me of the ending sequence from Indiana Jones.
- Hayes Haugen
"Top... men..."
- Gabe
I think I see my package!
- Joe Beda ()
from iPhone
oh sweet, loverly books that make me so happy and content. <sigh>
- Felicia Yue
Sch-WINGGGG!!!
- Ladybug Heather
Where's the Twilight warehouse? That warehouse doesn't look big enough to hold all the Twilight books that must be ordered.
- Matt Cutts
Matt, I think they drop-ship those directly from the Twilight-HarryPotter fulfillment moonlet.
- Kevin Fox
lol Kevin
- Kamilah Gill
oh wao.... #amazon fulfillment
- Yann Ropars
We have top men working on it...Top....men!!!
- WorldofHiglet
Oh - gabe beat me to it :)
- WorldofHiglet
So two-dimensional. Look at all that third dimension simply going to waste!
- Tim Tyler
ahem... top men as storage sorters... you have nothing else for them to do?
- A.T.
An organized mess
- Josh Haley
Hard to believe that we actually get things so quickly!
- Sheila Taylor
Thinking about it - do you think the TARDIS has a room like this in it somewhere?
- WorldofHiglet
I'm glad all that stuff is there, that is all of my Christmas presents that now need to be delivered...
- amelia arapoff
Dr Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US border - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...
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"Hugo-award-nominated science fiction author Dr. Peter Watts is in serious legal trouble after he was beaten, pepper-sprayed and imprisoned by American border guards at a Canada U.S. border crossing December 8. This is a call to friends, fans and colleagues to help. Peter, a Canadian citizen, was on his way back to Canada after helping a friend move house to Nebraska over the weekend. He was stopped at the border crossing at Port Huron, Michigan by U.S. border police for a search of his rental vehicle. When Peter got out of the car and questioned the nature of the search, the gang of border guards subjected him to a beating, restrained him and pepper sprayed him. At the end of it, local police laid a felony charge of assault against a federal officer against Peter. On Wednesday, he posted bond and walked across the border to Canada in shirtsleeves (he was released by Port Huron officials with his car and possessions locked in impound, into a winter storm that evening). He's home safe....
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- Jason Wehmhoener
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They stopped him leaving the US? Seems kind of strange. I have never seen or heard of this happening anywhere.
- Brian Sullivan
I was wondering about that too, Brian -- that might be why he was questioning the search to begin with. I've heard of similar things along the WA-Canada border, but most of those stories were from friends in college, in places where dope smuggling is really prevalent. None of them involved a beating, even when they were rude to the border guards.
- Jennifer Dittrich
That does seem very odd. It doesn't smell right that they beat him for just getting out of his car.
- Admiral Anika
I am thinking there is more to this story lurking somewhere.
- Brian Sullivan
I'm sure there is much more to the story. Perhaps found in an article not written by one of his friends?
- Alan Simpson
Yeah, I'd like to hear the rest of this story.
- tab thinks you're awesome
The simple act of inquiring about the nature of the search may have been seen as a provocation.
- Jason Wehmhoener
I'm definitely waiting for more details on this one; on the one hand, the write-up is very much from the view of a friend. On the other hand, I've seen enough people get popped in the mouth for "disrespect of a cop" that I wouldn't be surprised if that was what happened.
- Jennifer Dittrich
hmmm... nothing i can find in the Port Huron local paper, either [http://www.thetimesherald.com/] @thetimesherald
- MikeAmundsen
I used to go through that border crossing often. Lately it seems as if there's something going on, because journalist Amy Goodman (of Democracy Now!) reported recently that she was detained and subjected to an abusive search when she was going up to Vancouver to give a speech at a fundraiser for public radio. They seemed to think she was going to be making statements about the 2010...
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- Mark "DerBingle" J
Apparently what provoked the assault was that he didn't immediately get back in his car when they told him to.
- Nine
The National Post has picked up this story - http://network.nationalpost.com/np...
- Brian Sullivan
But they're still just reporting what boing boing said. I want a news agency to talk to everyone involved to get the full story.
- Alan Simpson
A little more investigation reported here - http://www.thestar.com/news...
- Brian Sullivan
English speakers: there is no need to pronounce Copenhagen as "Copenhah-gen" It is not more authentically Danish if you pronounce it that way. You see, Danes call that city København. If you want to be more authentically Danish, call the city that. If you use the English name for the city, pronounce it "Copenhay-gen".
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It's a bit silly that every language has to rewrite the names for other countries' places. Why can't we all call places by what the locals call them? But in the absence of that, yeah, might as well not be a poseur.
- LogEx
Is it really officially "Copenhay-gen" in English? I feel like I've heard it "Copenhah-gen" as a matter of course, not as a way to be more elite/authentic. Both sound equally acceptable to me, neither sounds more pretentious or anything than the other.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Jandy, maybe you just hang out with more high-brow types than we do ;)
- LogEx
I just call it "Buying Haven" and be done with it!
- Mark "DerBingle" J
I'm with LogEx
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I say Copenhay-gen.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I was just trying to figure out which I'd naturally say if I weren't thinking about, and I have no idea. Probably because I'm thinking about it.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I tried four times to correct my above comment, changing the "I" to "I'll" but was foiled each time! Anyway, for what it's worth, København literally translates as "Buying Port" or "Buying Harbor" because of its origins as a trading center...
- Mark "DerBingle" J
+LogEx. Once I was old enough to learn for myself that foreign places had their own localized designations (or at least pronounciation) I thought it pretty stupidly ego-centric to keep using the Western/Anglo version we made up for them.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
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The worst part of it is that we're not even consistent! When I was a kid it was Peking and Bombay. Now it's Beijing and Mumbai, which is fine, but why didn't we get it right in the first place. Maybe we'll just rotate the "preferred" name on a bi-decennial basis?
- Mark "DerBingle" J
But yeah, generally I agree with LogEx. Is it that hard to say "Italia" or "Praha" or "Firenze" instead of Italy, Prague, and Florence? No. But if you actually used those names in English, it'd be way pretentious. You'd have to get everyone to do it first, like Mark's examples.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Grand prize to anyone who can say Göteborg. Or any town in Finland.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
Holy dang! I love how I learn stuff on FF. I didn't know Beijing used to be called Peking by Westerners. Weirdness. http://www.logoi.com/notes...
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
"It's a bit silly that every language has to rewrite the names for other countries' places." - not really, it makes sense to re-write the name to a rough phonetic equiv. in the target language. That's what people are getting at, I think, having it sound similar. On the other hand, we'd have to learn where the heck Suomi is :) http://translate.google.com/#en|fi|...
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
So funny how this post was just lying here quietly then suddenly got discovered! a) I have no problem pronouncing Göteborg albeit with a slight American accent. (b) Even the Swedes call København Köpenhamn but that's a direct translation over to Swedish of "Buying Harbor" while Copenhagen doesn't mean anything in English (c) The Chinese themselves have changed the name of their capital...
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- Spidra Webster
Ahhh, but then say you try to say the local version and pronounce it wrong when asking for directions or something...suddenly you're heading in entirely the wrong direction and you don't even know it. I once tried to order a beer at a bar in Switzerland and ended up drinking Ovaltine! At least if you pronounce the Westernised version CORRECTLY then...it's a start. :)
- Amy
I've always said HAY not HAH, and that had the approval of a one-time Danish friend.
- Ian May
If you wanted to be cool (at least in Norway) you would just call it "Køben" (with a "ch" sound at the beginning) :)
- Thomas Bøhm
"ch"? Kinda like how Swedes pronounce, "att köpa" then?
- Spidra Webster
I always pronounce it "Copenhäagen-Dazs"
- Jim Norris
Spidra: Exactomundo. Swedes do that too. Whilst the Danish use a normal "k" sound (as you´re probably familiar with)
- Thomas Bøhm
Speak of the devil! http://friendfeed.com/scandin...
- Spidra Webster
some places change names, often through independence, such as a number of African countries, or places like Ceylon, which became Sri Lanka
- Ian May
Oh yeah. It's just odd that Göteborg is changing its name to the Anglicization of its name. In the case of Oslo it's almost as weird because Christiania is the colonial name. It was named after Denmark's King Christian IV. It would be almost like Cork, Ireland changing its name back to Queenstown.
- Spidra Webster
But Danny Kaye sang "Wonderful, Wonderful, Co-pen-hah-gen" in "Hans Christian Anderson." So that's what we learned.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Yes, but I'm positive that's because somebody thought that "posh" way of saying it would sound more authentically Danish.
- Spidra Webster
Reading this made me realize how many Western American cities are Spanish named, but pronounced in American English.
- Rob Haas
While we're at it: "Häagen-Dazs" is pure marketing: it is simply two made-up words meant to look Scandinavian to American eyes (in fact, the digraphs "äa" and "zs" are impossible in all Scandinavian languages)" http://friendfeed.com/zee...
- Micah Wittman
Correct. I worked at Häagen-Dazs (in fact, I spoke Swedish with a co-worker) and it always amused/irked me. I always thought Frusen Glädje at least had it right but I just looked it up and they were actually Frusen Glädjé, which is incorrect Swedish. But we do it a lot. Especially with é to make things sound French. Even taking genuine things like "le tigre" and making them "le tigré".
- Spidra Webster
Spidra, no kidd'n! wow.
- Micah Wittman
True, Rob. A Cuban-American friend of mine makes fun of some of the worst ones. OTOH, it's pretty understandable for a place that was overrun by another nation. Roman placenames in Britain remained but were pronounced differently by those that succeeded them.
- Spidra Webster
Copen- hay-gen is the correct way. I twitch every time I hear the other one. As for Häagen-Dazs, it doesn't really sound Scandinavian, more like southern German/Austrian or something like that..
- Rasmus Lauridsen
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