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Post by Shoesh on May 22, 2008 14:17:52 GMT -5
Well I don't know how your powers work! Do you need to sacrifice a goat while wearing a viking helmet? Or do you use telepathy?
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Post by de Worde on May 22, 2008 14:22:07 GMT -5
aw...sounds as if he's interested but chickened out. just ask him about the message. maybe he'll pluck up the courage when confronted.
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Post by Shoesh on May 22, 2008 14:23:50 GMT -5
Yeah, you're right. I guess his girlfriend won't mind..
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Post by de Worde on May 22, 2008 14:33:00 GMT -5
Beaty might have some words of advice in this matter.
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Post by dimples... on May 22, 2008 14:54:17 GMT -5
Well I don't know how your powers work! Do you need to sacrifice a goat while wearing a viking helmet? Or do you use telepathy? tin foil horny hats should do it...
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Post by Shoesh on May 22, 2008 14:57:47 GMT -5
hahahaa you said horny hats
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Post by Beaty on May 22, 2008 15:24:39 GMT -5
Beaty might have some words of advice in this matter. WHOA!!! Wait...you're right...
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Post by Shoesh on May 23, 2008 2:37:38 GMT -5
I taught the kid a few tricks, maybe she can teach me this time. Right, Beaty? The guy is such a tease, that's a pet peeve too. A horny hat one.
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Post by Beaty on May 23, 2008 12:31:55 GMT -5
I taught the kid a few tricks, maybe she can teach me this time. Right, Beaty? Hehe...learned it from the best. Miss Vunzen-pro herself... ;D
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Post by Shoesh on Jun 19, 2008 5:44:49 GMT -5
I don't like laptops. This one seems to like making my posts here disappear.
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Post by Shoesh on Jun 26, 2008 13:01:50 GMT -5
Bass class got canceled. I always miss out on funny silly movies on thursdaynight cus off class, but of course they have to air one tonight I've already seen.
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Post by breakerfall on Jul 7, 2008 8:03:55 GMT -5
People who have to leech parts of other peoples personalities just to seem vaguely interesting. You know the ones who have to change all ther opinions depending on who their with cause they got nothin of their own to fill their vacuous souless little voids
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Post by Shoesh on Jul 7, 2008 13:45:44 GMT -5
punch 'm in the face!
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Post by manintheshadows on Jul 7, 2008 13:47:19 GMT -5
What everyone else says!
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Post by okay on Jul 18, 2008 21:24:59 GMT -5
- bugs that bite - inflation, especially in beer prices. 8.99 for a 6 pack of micro brew? ? - zits. enough is enough.
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Post by kyselina on Jul 18, 2008 21:38:15 GMT -5
- inflation, especially in beer prices. 8.99 for a 6 pack of micro brew? ? Not only have grain prices gone up, but there has been a hops shortage going on for quite a while. My husband brews his own beer, and it's hard to get hops. Some varieties you just can't get. Beyond that, the place that he buys supplies from only allows half of your order to be hops, the rest has to be other supplies. Hops rationing! The big brewers have futures contracts with hop growers, but the microbrewers generally have to fend for themselves on the open market. www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16245024
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Post by okay on Jul 18, 2008 21:54:29 GMT -5
I brewed some beer with my family a few weeks back... the hops look like rabbit pellets! Seemed like a good deal overall though... $160 for 72 22oz bottles of beer. I hope it's tasty...
It's odd that the big brewers are immune to hops-speculation, as oil-speculation is killing us in the US. I suppose the fact that now all of the big brewers in the US are owned by European companies and thus have the better Euro money to spend might be part of it...
At least Rolling Rock [edit: take it back, apparently owned by Anheuser-Busch which is owned by InBrev] and PBR are still true US brewers, and cheap...
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Post by manintheshadows on Jul 19, 2008 4:42:01 GMT -5
InBev's only half-European. The other half is Brazilian
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Post by manintheshadows on Jul 19, 2008 12:57:20 GMT -5
The latest Afterhours CD proving to be nigh-on impossible to get hold of. Cheapest I can see on import is UKĀ£20.49 (US$42), which puts US-based moaning about having to pay more than $15 for the last Isobel/Mark CD into a bit of perspective.
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Post by Fields at Midnight on Jul 19, 2008 15:19:42 GMT -5
Oil speculation is not killing oil prices. Supply relative to demand is.
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Post by manintheshadows on Jul 19, 2008 17:05:21 GMT -5
Oil is horribly buggered up right now.
The only way to bring the price down is for the demand for it to reduce - an excess of supply will become cheaper in order for the demand to return. As it is at the moment, supply and demand are still in balance. People are still filling their gas-guzzling cars to make unnecessary journeys, and are also still buying inefficient vehicles in their droves. I'm not sure how it works elsewhere as far as utilities go, but here in the UK the domestic and industrial energy suppliers were sold off in the 1980s and are all in private hands - so if supply costs spiral, they don't give a shit as they will all simply pass on that increase to their customers. If their customers don't like it, then tough because all the other suppliers charge the same anyway.
The awful US Dollar rate doesn't help matters, as this is pushing the price up further - several OPEC members have been lobbying to change crude oil trading currency from US$ to the more stable Euro at least as a temporary measure, but this has been met with hostile resistance. In the case of Iraq (who made the switch shortly before the last invasion), the resistance was a bit more hostile than with others. Bottom line is that a lot of people are making a shitload of money at the moment off people who are too lazy to change their habits.
Yes, I have been drinking.
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Post by Montage on Jul 19, 2008 21:07:29 GMT -5
You are still right. People are still buying gas-guzzling vehicles because they're stupid, yet still fortunate enough to have the money to afford being able to. I filled my tank at $1.60/L-- $6.06/gal the other day. I can remember when I was a kid (okay, ten years ago), when gas was $0.50/L....oh, to be so lucky.
Since I've been driving (4 years), it went from costing ~$50 to fill my Ford windstar's tank to costing $50 to fill my Toyota Corolla's tank....(a Windstar has a tank nearly twice the size).
It's bullshit.
No, I haven't been drinking.
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Post by Fields at Midnight on Jul 20, 2008 1:29:48 GMT -5
The Futures market bets on what the price will be in the future. They expect the same amount of supply with increasing demand. The collapsing dollar is also key. However, Oil had it's biggest single day drop ever when Bush lived the EO ban on Off-shore oil drilling.
Unfortunately, the worst Speaker of the House in the history of dsemocracy going back 3000 years to Ancient Rome, Nancy Pelosi is at the helm of Congress while they sit on their hands and do nothing that they promiosed when elected. The only thing they have done, in a time of economic panic and possible recession, is take money out of the hands of taxpayers so we can bail out banks because Chris Dodd (AND Barack Obama, BTW) got sweetheart loans from BofA. Those of us who can't afford to have vacation homes now have to pay for banks who can't either. Thanks Congress. Really making it easy for me to prosper and put food on my table.
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Post by okay on Jul 20, 2008 1:41:43 GMT -5
The current spike in US oil prices is the result of speculation and the poor dollar, NOT lack of supply. New offshore drilling facilitys won't be functioning for another 10 years. We still need a solution, as I don't expect the dollar to return to its previous desirability for at least 5 years. To a large degree I think we'll see people modifying their behavior in a positive way- a revival of 'Main Street' for example, rather than driving to Walmart 15 miles away just cuz they need lightbulbs. Better fuel economy standards from the govt are OBVIOUSLY NECCECARY too. I bet there are foreign car companies inventing cheap 40 mpg cars for the US market, while GMC is whining about not wanting to meet a 35 MPG standard in 2015. I could go on, but I'd probably start sounding like a nutcase.
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Post by Montage on Jul 20, 2008 2:03:25 GMT -5
There are cars that run on compressed air. But they won't meet north american safety standards, so they won't be seen here ever.
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