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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,591 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I feel stupid. This is going to make doing percentages in my head so much easier.

  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yeah, like when I want to figure 18% off on a box that's $160.

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  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,637 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Bob_Luken said:
    I checked. It's true. Also, if you were trying to keep it down to 3 states while headed to NC, and if you took a wrong turn into southern Illinois, you might not notice you were in Illinois. I mean it's not horrible and attempts by the residents there to harm you are unlikely.

    You'll know by the tolls.

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  • CharlieHeis
    CharlieHeis Posts: 8,981 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A friend knows someone that has some kind of ties to Churchill Downs. She was in the stables yesterday before the Oaks. I've seen a pic of her and one of the most famous trainers in the business. Here's a picture from a little bit ago. I hope his mother was a mudder.

  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,704 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Yakster said:

    @Bob_Luken said:
    I checked. It's true. Also, if you were trying to keep it down to 3 states while headed to NC, and if you took a wrong turn into southern Illinois, you might not notice you were in Illinois. I mean it's not horrible and attempts by the residents there to harm you are unlikely.

    You'll know by the tolls.

    I was just trying dump on northeastern Illinois, but once again I had to check. I couldn't find any toll roads in the southern part of the state. All I see is tolls in the northeast. But I have a vague memory of hitting a toll road once outside of Chicagoland while driving back from the MKE herf years ago. May have been Rockford IL.

  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,704 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I didn't know it was derby day, so I tuned in, and the big race doesn't even happen for four more hours or so, but all-day coverage of every f***ing detail is underway. Dylan Dryer of NBC's Today show commented on the rainy conditions, "No one cares if it's rainy or not". Could she call herself useless any harder than that?

  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 10,046 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @peter4jc said:
    Yeah, like when I want to figure 18% off on a box that's $160.

    Move the zero.....

  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭✭

    ???
    18% off 160 = 132.20
    ???

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  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 10,046 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @peter4jc said:
    ???
    18% off 160 = 132.20
    ???

    The percentage off is the same but the end amount is different.

  • CharlieHeis
    CharlieHeis Posts: 8,981 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Now she's petting horses

  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 10,046 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @CharlieHeis said:
    Now she's petting horses

    I've seen many backside of a horse and that doesn't look like it's backside.

  • IndustMech
    IndustMech Posts: 5,260 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Bob_Luken said:
    I checked. It's true. Also, if you were trying to keep it down to 3 states while headed to NC, and if you took a wrong turn into southern Illinois, you might not notice you were in Illinois. I mean it's not horrible and attempts by the residents there to harm you are unlikely.

    My disagree
    @Patrickbrick ?

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    It'll be fine once the swelling goes down.

  • IndustMech
    IndustMech Posts: 5,260 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Bob_Luken said:
    I didn't know it was derby day, so I tuned in, and the big race doesn't even happen for four more hours or so, but all-day coverage of every f***ing detail is underway. Dylan Dryer of NBC's Today show commented on the rainy conditions, "No one cares if it's rainy or not". Could she call herself useless any harder than that?

    You reminded me, I turned it on 2 minutes before the start

    I know, You're a big dog and I'm on the list.
    Let's eat, GrandMa.  /  Let's eat GrandMa.  --  Punctuation saves lives

    It'll be fine once the swelling goes down.

  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 10,046 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @IndustMech said:

    @Bob_Luken said:
    I didn't know it was derby day, so I tuned in, and the big race doesn't even happen for four more hours or so, but all-day coverage of every f***ing detail is underway. Dylan Dryer of NBC's Today show commented on the rainy conditions, "No one cares if it's rainy or not". Could she call herself useless any harder than that?

    You reminded me, I turned it on 2 minutes before the start

    It's a thing, you know..... Like taking part in a thing. It's just there.... you know.

  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,637 ✭✭✭✭✭

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  • d_blades
    d_blades Posts: 4,576 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Approximately 500,000,000 cf of water have dumped from Table Rock lake the last three weeks.

    Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.

  • OutdoorsSmoke_21191
    OutdoorsSmoke_21191 Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A good cigar and the open road solve most problems.

  • OutdoorsSmoke_21191
    OutdoorsSmoke_21191 Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A good cigar and the open road solve most problems.

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    Yakster Posts: 31,637 ✭✭✭✭✭

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  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,114 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Other “studies” show Manhattan, Honolulu, Los Angeles all also listed as number one.

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  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,114 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Contrary to popular belief, umami is not a taste. The word umami translates from the Japanese as “delicious” or “deliciousness”. It is a feeling or sensation, not a taste. It was coined as a “taste” by the chemist that invented MSG to help promote his product.

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  • OutdoorsSmoke_21191
    OutdoorsSmoke_21191 Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A good cigar and the open road solve most problems.

  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,114 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I started to ask the first time this was posted. I’m curious…do they not pay teachers in Colorado or are there not any??

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  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,114 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nevermind… I actually read the fine print this time lol

    If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.

  • OutdoorsSmoke_21191
    OutdoorsSmoke_21191 Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My apologies for being repetitive. Old age. My bad. 😞

    A good cigar and the open road solve most problems.

  • Itsfine
    Itsfine Posts: 20,539 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Yakster said:

    So I guess April 9th 2025 was the square of February 3, 45 AD

    @ScotchnSmoke sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,114 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @VegasFrank said:

    @Yakster said:

    So I guess April 9th 2025 was the square of February 3, 45 AD

    Heyyyy… I get it!!

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