

Such a grift but I will give it to them, charging $47.45 is pretty clever marketing.


Such a grift but I will give it to them, charging $47.45 is pretty clever marketing.


I was trying to figure out if they still made Plasma TVs. I’m an idiot.


To expand on Testfactors statement, the banks help remove damaged currency but there’s no real plan to reclaim currency that’s already been circulated. It’s always been that way and creates scarcity in the collectors market over time. I’m not sure why this is a headline.
The only time I can think of where the US Mint had a plan to reclaim currency was during WWII when the US war machine needed the copper found in the Lincoln cent. The mint pressed steel pennies and banks were instructed to reclaim as many copper pennies as they could.
I had an ex that asked me to show her how to cook and then proceeded to have a complete mental breakdown while screaming about how judgy I was being.
Turns out she lived off of turkey on flatbread, plain, every.single.night. We didn’t make it more than a month. My (now) wife went from only being able to bake, to a full on Sous Chef. Most nights I don’t have to say a word, we’re just on a mission to get dinner for 5 ready.
One of my first jobs was in a call center with a scripted greeting using an assertive voice because the customers always tried to dunk on us. My friends and family would laugh so hard when I answered my personal phone with the script/voice.


I am so conflicted on Ramsey. I want to hate him so much but I’m now debt free, have a great credit score, and lived a normal life while fixing it thanks to that smug asshoke.
The envelope on my fridge also saved my marriage. My wife would worry about me buying a used dvd, the nice cheese, or anything I wanted over $10 really (we were really poor). Arguments and resentment ensued. Given my budget, Dave said to pay yourself out of your own paycheck, $10-20 every two weeks and I could only spend that for fun shit. It had to be in cash and if possible, the envelope had to be somewhere where I could see it (magnet to the fridge). For some reason, that changed my wife’s whole point of view and she was excited for me to spend my “fun-velope”. Good stuff.
I don’t know the other dude.
We now all live in a recursive loop.
Woah, core memory unlocked! As kids, we put DSL on business card shaped DVDRWs and kept them in our wallets. We could take them to the library and boot into DSL, bypassing the software security.
At the time, libraries had outrageously fast internet compared to home. I would plug in my ORB drive and write as much Napster to the tape drive as I could (2.2GB @ 5-8MB/second). I’m sure everyone there had the worst connections because of me.
Great memory for me, thanks! 🙏
Oh darn, I guess you’re going to have to start over :) . Changing class (even subclass) makes the game very replayable and as you’ve noticed, it’s easy to miss things on your first play-through.


I had no intentions of quitting but I have a high stress job, was going through a nasty divorce, and was having unhealthy thoughts, so I went to therapy and started anti-depressants. The quitting smoking part was literally a side effect I wasn’t aware of at the time, and I just realized one day I hadn’t had a smoke in like 3 days. It surprised the hell out of me.
…and yes, smokers STINK. If anything, get your sense of taste and smell back. It’s awesome. After smoking for 20 years, I had no idea how stinky I was all the time.


Me quitting smoking was a side effect of an anti-depressant I was on called Wellbutrin. One day I just didn’t smoke and that was 580 days ago. I stopped Wellbutrin a year ago and just never had the urge to go back to either.
They are! I was only going to get one cat after a nasty divorce, but found out they were a bonded pair and went home with two. They keep the silence at bay. I couldn’t picture my life without them.

Po’ Boy (Handsome Man)
Pepper Pepper Pepper (Pretty Kitty)


DESTROYED, even.
The cocktail wieners tasted funny. I think it was the Brazilian rosewood toothpicks soaked in cognac, and covered in gold leaf. Billie had 16!


“What has two thumbs and doesn’t give a crap? (Points thumbs to self) This Guy, Oh Yeah!” - This Guy.
My great grand kids will know exactly how lame I was.


Hmmmm… only 12 billion USD. I thought it would have been more.
A friend of mine who helped me through some tough times always said, if you lend or give your money away, never expect to see it again. This was in response to me not being able to pay him back when I promised. I eventually did pay him back, but his kindness and generosity still haunts me with guilt.


At my fist big boy job my dad sent me one that locked out my keyboard and mouse then cranked the volume to 100% as it yelled “hey everyone, I’m watching porno over here” followed by a super loud moan. It was a quiet call center too. That moment still haunts my dreams.


In the 90’s, companies were super lax on data security, retention, and destruction. In my city we had major IT players like INTEL, HP, Motorola, etc. We would dumpster dive and find whole computers full of data and no passwords. We were after the hardware so all our friends could play Doom MP, Quake, or later Unreal Tournament… so we usually wiped them but who knows what was in those things. It was a lot of e-waste and because of divers with bad intentions, now there’s incredibly strict corporate rules about data security/destruction.
I miss The Wonderful World of Disney anthology series that played on a Sunday evening. I want to see one with Wojtek, Sgt. Reckless, and Cher Ami. That would make me so happy.